Publications

Narayanan, R. Karthick. Multilinguality, Vitality, and Endangerment: Insights from the Lived Experiences of Multilingual India. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025. ISBN (hardback): 978-1-0364-5464-7; ISBN (eBook): 978-1-0364-5465-4.

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Narayanan, R. Karthick, and Vasamalli K. Maarum Ulagil Maraiyaa Oligal Thodar Vaimozhi Ilakkiyathin Oru Thoguppu [English rendering: Enduring Voices in the Changing Times: A Collection of Toda Oral Literature]. Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 2017. ISBN 978-81-260-5344-5.

Narayanan, R. Karthick, and Meiraba Takhellambam. “A Collaboratory Model for Creation of Digital Language Archives in India.” The Electronic Library 40, no. 5 (2022): 594–606. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-02-2022-0030.

Shankar Narayanan, Aravind Illa, Nayan Anand, Ganesh Sinisetty, Karthick Narayanan, and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh. “An Acoustic Investigation on the Effect of Speaking Rate on Vowel Space and Coarticulation in Toda VCV Sequences.” Sādhanā 46, no. 3 (2021), article 128. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-021-01639-8.

Narayanan, R. Karthick. “Made in India: SiDHELA, India’s First Endangered Language Archive.” DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology 40, no. 5 (2020): 292–299. https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.40.05.16349.

Hima, Ktien, and R. Karthick Narayanan. “Rokdung (Sikkim, India) Language Contexts.” Language Documentation and Description 19 (2020): 66–78. https://doi.org/10.25894/LDD65.

Narayanan, R. Karthick. “Assessing Language Endangerment: A Methodological Review.” Language in India 19, no. 7 (2019): 128–145.

Narayanan, R. Karthick. “Tradition vs Aspiration: Gender Differences and Language Shift.” In Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia, edited by Anvita Abbi and Kapila Vatsyayan, 203–216. Primus Books, 2022. ISBN 978-93-91144-18-0.

Karthick Narayanan R, Siddharth Singh, Saurabh Singh, Aryan Mathur, Ritesh Kumar, Shyam Ratan, Bornini Lahiri, Benu Pareek, Neerav Mathur, Amalesh Gope, Meiraba Takhellambam, and Yogesh Dawer. “Field to Model: Pairing Community Data Collection with Scalable NLP through the LiFE Suite.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics, 76–84. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. https://aclanthology.org/2025.fieldmatters-1.7/.

Narayanan, R. Karthick. “Orality and Language Vitality.” In Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions: FEL XXVIII, 58–63. Islamabad, September 2024.

Narayanan, R. Karthick. “Traditional Religious-Cultural Practices & Reversing Language Shift among the Todas of Nilgiri.” In Community Ownership of Language Education for Endangered Language Revitalisation, edited by Siri Tuttle, Nicholas Ostler, Wafa Hozien, Steven Krauwer, Salem Mezhoud, Christopher Moseley, Eda Derhemi, and Hakim Elnazarov, 1–11, 2022.

Narayanan, R. Karthick, and Meiraba Takhellambam. “Emerging Role of Libraries in Language Archiving in India: A Case Study of SiDHELA.” In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Digital Language Archives: LangArc 2021, edited by Oksana L. Zavalina and Shobhana L. Chelliah, 5–7, 2021.

Shankar Narayanan, Aravind Illa, Nayan Anand, R. Karthick Narayanan, Ganesh Sinisetty, and Prasanta Kumar Ghosh. “An Acoustic-Articulatory Database of VCV Sequences and Words in Toda at Different Speaking Rates.” In Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Oriental COCOSDA, 1–6, 2019.

Kidwai, A., B. Tinkari, M. Takhellambam, O. Bhalla, R. Karthick Narayanan, S. Metha, and V. Sharma. Rongpo Sketch Grammar. Research report, Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, 2016.

Kidwai, A., B. Tinkari, M. Takhellambam, O. Bhalla, R. Karthick Narayanan, S. Metha, and V. Sharma. Rongpo Dictionary. Research report, Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, 2016.

Kidwai, A., B. Tinkari, R. Karthick Narayanan, and S. Metha. Rongpo Narrations, Songs and Stories. Research report, Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, 2016.