Prof. Bornini Lahiri

Prof. Bornini Lahiri is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She has a PhD in Linguistics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has previously worked in the project, the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, hosted by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru. She was a research assistant for Study and Research of Indigenous and Endangered Languages of India, hosted by Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has worked extensively on typological and morpho-syntactic properties of several lesser-known, low-resourced languages, including Toto, Mahali, Dhimal, Magahi and Angika. Her publications include The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages (2021), Bangla-Kurmali-English-Hindi Dictionary (2020), Effect of Bangla on Koda Verbs (2020), Kurmali: A Language of Undivided Bihar (2019), and Presence of Minor Languages of West Bengal in Social Media (2018), among others.

Prof. Dripta Piplai (Mondal)

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Dripta Piplai (Mondal) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of Delhi (2015). Her research interests include Language conflict in classroom, Syntactic Variation, creating language technology- based solutions for minority children, material development for the children speaking endangered languages, Language Policy and Planning for First Languages etc. Previously, she has taught at the Department of Elementary Education of two Delhi University colleges. Dripta has done extensive field work in different rural areas of West Bengal for last 14 years. Her current research focuses language technology for Mundari speaking children, and development of additional Teaching-learning materials in two link languages of rural Bengal.

NOC: Tools and Technologies of Language Documentation, IIT Kharagpur