Samopriya Basu

Jambu: A historical linguistic database for South Asian languages

2023

We introduce JAMBU, a cognate database of South Asian languages which unifies dozens of previous sources in a structured and accessible format. The database includes nearly 287k lemmata from 602 lects, grouped together in 23k …

Bhasacitra: Visualising the dialect geography of South Asia

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We present Bhasacitra, a dialect mapping system for South Asia built on a database of linguistic studies of languages of the region annotated for topic and location data. We analyse language coverage and look towards …