The UGC-Centre for Endangered Languages of Kerala (CeLK)
was established in 2017. University Grant Commission awarded financial support of Rs one crore ninety two lakhs to establish this Centre at the Dept. of Linguistics University of Kerala. Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala established in 1963. Ever since 1963s the Dept. of Linguistics has been consistently training students, documenting and delivering research output in the area of endangered tribal languages of Kerala. Therefore, the Department received national and global attention as an advanced centre in the area of field linguistics and documentation of tribal languages. The linguistic resource developed for the five decades makes the Department as the first and last centre of resource of tribal languages in Kerala.
The mission of the CeLK is to ensure linguistic justice for all language communities in Kerala irrespective of the number of speakers. CeLK functions as a training, resource, research, documentation, revitalization and developmental centre for all indigenous and endangered languages in Kerala. Human resource training for language documentation and revitalization, advanced documentation of endangered languages, revitalization and resource development of endangered languages are the major missions of the CeLK.
