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Mission & Vision

MISSION

To advance the preservation, scientific study, and technological development of indigenous languages of India, with particular emphasis on the languages of North-East India, through interdisciplinary research and innovation in language science and technology.

VISION

With special emphasis on the North-East region, the Centre aims to advance digital preservation and archiving, develop linguistic resources, promote language technologies, strengthen research capacity, and function as a nodal centre for language studies in the region..

GOAL

  • To provide an ecosystem for interdisciplinary research and development in all areas related to linguistics science and technology.
  • Digital preservation and archiving of speech, text and other resources of Indian languages, with special emphasis on endangered languages and computationally low-resource languages.
  • Empowering local communities by disseminating language technology.
  • Encouraging community participation through crowd sourcing.
  • Disseminating information on Indian languages through various media.
  • Technology development for different languages of India specifically for the NE languages.
  • Capacity building through training and providing facilities to PhD and Masters students.
  • To act as nodal centre for language studies in the NE region.