Revd Dr Vijay D’Souza, SJ, current LSRI Integral Ecology Visiting Fellow, is Associate Fellow in the Study of Endangered Languages at Campion Hall, an Associate Member of the Faculty of Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and Director of the North Eastern Institute of Language and Culture (NEILAC) in Guwahati, India. 

NEILAC seeks to empower indigenous communities to retain, reclaim and reshape their linguistic and cultural heritage. It does this by collaborating with communities to document, preserve, study and promote their languages. 

Vijay has worked for 25 years with the Hrusso Aka people of Arunachal Pradesh, North Eastern India, focusing on orthography development and language revival. His expertise includes phonology, language documentation, language description, and the revival of endangered languages and cultures. Vijay’s work with the Hrusso Aka has seen the development of a Hrusso Aka orthography, a successful revival of the Hrusso Aka language, extensive documentation and description of the Hrusso Aka language, and the printing of the first books in Hrusso Aka.