Asuri
[aka Ashree, Asura, Assur]Classification: Austro-Asiatic
·threatened
This deposit contains spontaneous interviews, conversations, songs and basic dictionaries on various semantic fields in Asur, a small, highly endangered North Munda (Austro-Asiatic) language spoken in northwest Jharkhand and eastern Chhattisgarh in eastern central India. The data for this deposit was all collected during the “International Workshop on the Documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultures – With Special Reference to Jharkhand” at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India from April 14-23, 2019. Many of the interviews and conversations are either partially or entirely in Sadri (Nagpuri), the lingua franca of western Jharkhand and eastern Chhattisgarh, as well as Hindi.