Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

SOAS Linguistics webinars
Voices from the lost horizon
22 September 2021

Dr. Anvita Abbi

Abstract: Prof. Anvita Abbi will discuss her latest publication, Voices from the Lost Horizon, a collection of folk tales and songs of the Great Andamanese. Today, Great Andamanese is a moribund language, breathing its last breath. Voices from the Lost Horizon is a collection of a number of folk tales and songs of the Great Andamanese. These stories and songs represent the first-ever collection rendered to Prof. Abbi and her team by the Great Andamanese people in local settings, bringing together 10 rare stories and 46 songs in Great Andamanese, the only collection of its kind.

Prof. Abbi will be interviewed by Prof. Julia Sallabank (SOAS)

How to cite: Abbi, Anvita & Julia Sallabank. 2021. Voices from the lost horizon. SOAS Linguistics Webinar 2021-09-22.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5525499