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    Notes on the sociopolitical history of nomenclatures in Northeast India
    ( 2024) Haokip, Pauthang
    This study discusses the different types of ethnolinguistic nomenclatures before and after British colonial rule in Northeast India. Before the colonial era, every community had endonyms/autonyms and exonyms for regional ethnic groups, often with inclusive cultural terms meaning ‘our people’ for themselves, while they often used derogatory terms for their neighboring communities based on features of food choice, clothing, and other ethnic features. After the British established an administration and settled in the region, they started naming the tribes of North India based on the names provided by the plainsmen under their control, often with meanings along the lines of ‘savage’, ‘uncouth’, ‘wild’, and so on. Whilst most of the names were denounced later by speakers of the languages because of their pejorative connotations, others survived, such as ‘Naga’, and more groups have embraced ‘Naga’ as their ethnic identity despite its derogative meaning, while others, such as ‘Kuki’, have divided into various tribes with their own ethnonyms. This study also deals with other factors affecting nomenclatures, namely, ‘scheduled tribe’ recognition (a constitutional safeguard for the promotion and protection of the rights of minorities belonging to a social category of scheduled tribes) and the influence of Western education in shaping nomenclatures the way they are.
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    Bibliography of Michel Ferlus
    ( 2024) Alves, Mark ; Michaud, Alexis
    The list herein is an extensive bibliography of the publications of Michel Ferlus (1935-2024), including 118 publications stretching five decades from 1970 to 2020. His research topics include Mon-Khmer historical phonology (in particular Khmu, Thavung, Vietic, Khmer, Mon), the history of writing systems of Indian origin in Southeast Asia, as well as Old Chinese phonology. Ferlus also addressed topics at the intersection of historical linguistics, history and archaeology, such as ethnonymy and the history of peoples and techniques. This bibliography was prepared on the basis of an ‘autobibliography’ prepared by Ferlus, which he shared with colleagues and updated over the years. Links to the HAL archive are provided not only for unpublished documents (such as conference handouts) but also for some journal articles for which he prepared corrected and updated versions.
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    Remembering Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)
    ( 2024) Michaud, Alexis ; Nguyên, Minh Châu
    This is an "In Memoriam" for Michel Ferlus (1935-2024).
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    500 Proto Austroasiatic Etyma: Version 1.0
    ( 2024-01-29) Sidwell, Paul
    The purpose of this paper is to provide a citable list of Austroasiatic (AA) etymologies and reconstructions that represents the current state of the art, superseding older works such as Peiros (2005) and Shorto (2006). It is an initial release of 500 numbered etyma; as the current project progresses, there will be one or more subsequent releases that extend the list. It is planned that the same data set will form the basis of a collaborative project to be hosted on the icaal.net website of the International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics.