Call for Chapters: Advances in Northeast Indian Languages and Technologies, Volume 1

Digital Futures for Indigenous Languages: Culture, Technology, and Preservation

As Northeast India's indigenous languages face unprecedented challenges in the digital age, this inaugural volume examines how technology can serve as a tool for preservation, revitalization, and community empowerment. Bringing together scholars, technologists, and community practitioners, this collection explores innovative approaches to keeping these languages vital in contemporary contexts while honoring traditional knowledge systems and cultural practices.

Topics of Interest:
- Digital Documentation & Archiving: Community-led recording, oral history digitization, endangered language documentation
- Language Technology Development: NLP tools, speech recognition, machine translation, text-to-speech for low-resource languages
- Educational Applications: Mobile apps, e-learning platforms, gamified learning, digital literacy programs
- Social Media & Digital Spaces: Online communities, Unicode implementation, keyboard development, digital writing systems
- AI & Machine Learning: Dataset creation, model training, ethical considerations, community participation
- Cultural Preservation: Digital storytelling, multimedia archives, traditional knowledge databases, intergenerational transmission
- Policy & Infrastructure: Digital language rights, government initiatives, funding models, sustainability strategies
- Case Studies: Successful revitalization projects, community-technology partnerships, implementation lessons

Submission Details:
- Chapter Length: 4,000-7,000 words
- Format: APA 7 or Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics
- Deadline: February 10, 2026
- Expected Publication: March 2026

Why Publish with Us:
- Open Access (CC BY 4.0) - no paywalls, no author fees
- ISBN-registered academic publisher
- Double-blind peer review
- Focus on community impact alongside scholarly rigor
- First publisher dedicated to Northeast India's 220+ indigenous languages

Submission: Email editor@northeastlangchive.org with chapter manuscript and 150-word abstract.

More Information: https://northeastlangchive.org/call-for-chapters/