The ‘Sea Lexicon’ is a collaborative endeavour that aims at the co-creation of a lexicon based on words related to the sea. It is an invitation for a transregional thinking through the perspective of the sea. We focus on words that animate the lives of coastal communities in various languages across the Indian Ocean.
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Explore the words and stories by selecting an alphabet and word
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Khoti
Khoti is part of everyday living in southern bengal. This is best exemplified through the following story about a family settled in Baliara ...
Khoti
Loss
Bonya
Today, when one travels through the Sundrabans region by boat during high tide and looks towards the inhabited islands, one can only see the ...
Bonya
Flood
Bandh
Nodi-bandh is a common term used for the earthen or cement and brick walls erected around islands called bunds or embankments in the southern ...
Bandh
Bund
Zah
The Karen people arrived in the Andaman Islands from Burma (now Myanmar) in 1925, initially as forest clearers brought by the British ...
Zah
Net
Shurav
a)Pheruthalayam-Â This is a dangerous one, it has seven fins. The arrival of this shark reminds one of a jet as it is believed that it ...
Shurav
Fish
Pharam
A pharam is the coir-making vessel which is placed inside the sea during high tide. There are small pits inside the pharam. Each of these pits ...
Pharam
Vessel
Contribute to the lexicon
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The Sea Lexicon project is an ongoing attempt to document the words from the indian ocean region. You can help build the database of words and expand the lexicon