East Central Zone
About the East Central Zone
Encompassing Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and West Bengal, the Eastern Zone dedicates its resources to the comprehensive documentation and study of nine selected languages.
The Principal Investigators and Senior/Junior Resource Persons working on these languages are drawn from various universities and the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL). The region is home to a remarkable mix of Austroasiatic (Munda), Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman and Dravidian tongues spoken by small communities.
Documenting the East Central Linguistic Diversity
The East Central Zone encompasses states and union territories with diverse and critical ethnolinguistic communities. Our dedicated research teams work closely with native speakers to document, archive, and revitalize languages that form an essential part of the region's cultural heritage.
- Comprehensive fieldwork and data collection
- Development of bilingual dictionaries and grammars
- Digital archiving in Bhasha Sanchika
States and Languages Documented
15 endangered languages documented across 4 states and union territories.
Bihar
Gangetic plains
Jharkhand
Chota Nagpur plateau
Odisha
Eastern coast & Mahanadi delta
West Bengal
Bengal delta & hills
Research Team
Research team assigned to each language — Principal Investigators and their Junior/Senior Resource Persons.