Asur Learners' Book
Authors - Zoya Khalid and Gunjal Ikir Munda.
Description - The book contains a preliminary grammar of Asur Language and words listed according to their semantic category along will a collection of basic conversational sentences in Asur.
The book also contains songs in Asur and English translation of Asur riddles and folkstories.
Date - 14/08/2020
Languages - Asur (Roman and Devanagari transcription), English and Hindi.
Cover Design - Animesh Soreng
Asur - Hindi - English
Description - A complete Asur- Hindi- English dictionary with over 2000 words with sentences and encyclopedic information.
Compiled by Gunjal Ikir Munda, Zoya Khalid, Arun Kumar Pandey, Shilpa, Bikram Jora, Pushpa Tigga, Deep Lakshmi and Rishika Kashyap.
Languages - Asur ( IPA and Devanagari transcription ), English and Hindi.
Date - 16/08/2020
A phonological sketch of Asur
Authors - Zoya Khalid.
Description - The paper briefly examines the phonological features of Asur. Asur is North Munda language mostly spoken in Gumla district of Jharkhand in India. Asur being a North Munda language, has phonological features like the presence of glottal sound and unreleased stop /g ̚/. Asur phonology is rich in retroflexes and aspirated retroflexes which is also a common feature of Munda languages. The paper looks into the phonemic inventory and allophonic variations in Asur phonology. It also delves into other phonological phenomenon like gemination, syllabication, nasalization, reduplication and morphophonemic adaptation of borrowed verbs in Asur.
Date - 14/08/2020
Languages - Asur (Roman and Devanagari transcription), English and Hindi.