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18 Facts About Anvita Abbi

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Professor Anvita Abbi was born on 9 January 1949 and is an Indian linguist and scholar of minority languages, known for her studies on tribal languages and other minority languages of South Asia.

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Anvita Abbi was born on 9 January 1949, in Agra to a family that had produced a number of Hindi writers.

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Anvita Abbi worked as professor of linguistics at Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies.

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Anvita Abbi is credited with extensive research on the six language families in India and the languages and culture of the Great Andamanese which she did as a part of the Endangered Languages Documentation Project project on Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese, SOAS, University of London.

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Anvita Abbi resumed her research on the topic in 2006, concentrating on the morpho-syntax and lexicon of three dying languages of Andaman Islands and unearthed evidence proving that Great Andamanese belongs to a linguistically different language family.

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Anvita Abbi has held many positions of importance, both at administrative and academic levels.

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Anvita Abbi has served as an advisor to institutions such as UNESCO and Sahitya Akademi.

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Anvita Abbi is a life member of the Linguistic Society of India at their Dravidian Linguistics Association wing and has sat on the editorial board of two journals, Indian Linguistics and the International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics.

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Anvita Abbi has been invited by several universities around the world as visiting professor.

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Anvita Abbi has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses at various platforms and at many institutions of repute.

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Anvita Abbi is credited with 19 books, authored, coauthored and edited.

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Anvita Abbi's writings cover the typology, structures and ethnolinguistic aspects of languages and their documentation.

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Anvita Abbi's work has spanned the entire Indian subcontinent and the most known among her works is her project, Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese.

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Anvita Abbi has published over 80 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals.

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Anvita Abbi has been honoured by several institutions and establishments.

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Anvita Abbi has held the position of the Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany for three years, 200,2003 and 2010.

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Anvita Abbi was a Leverhume Professor at the SOAS, University of London in 2011 and a fellow of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cornell University, New York, US in 1990 and a visiting fellow of the La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2003.

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In 2013, the Government of India honoured Anvita Abbi by awarding her the civilian award of Padma Shri.