Preserving the vanishing voices of Gujarat's tribal heritage

Cultures · Published 24 October 2026 Swipe more like this →

In short: Discover how the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre is documenting the endangered languages of Gujarat to ensure their linguistic history is not lost to time.

This video presents the documentation of endangered languages within Gujarat. The project was conducted by the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre with support from the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, under the 2018-19 Scheme of Centre of Excellence.

General information, not professional advice. Spotted an error? Flag the card or see corrections and complaints.

Intellect Plus is a visual educational discovery platform for exploring fascinating facts and ideas. Brain Food, Not Brain Rot. What is Intellect Plus?

Related

• Linguistic extinction is a permanent loss of human knowledge
• Why we focus on linguistic loss instead of language rebirth
• Why millions of speakers are losing their native tongues to a single label
• From Stone Age settlements to a modern industrial powerhouse, the story of Gujarat
• Saving a language means more than just digitizing its words
• How an ancient language helped a survivor escape the Holocaust
• Why losing a single language is a form of cultural inbreeding
• India's Constitution avoids the word Adivasi, though millions call themselves by it
• Congo Basin foragers carry some of humanity's oldest surviving genetic lineages
• Why did a massive population of Black Argentines seemingly vanish from the historical record?
• Brazil's racial identity is a complex social construct rather than a biological reality
• The legal architecture of racial segregation through the ban on interracial marriage

More in Endangered languages · More in Cultures · Latest · A–Z · All topics