[1] In 2013, she was honoured with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India for her contributions to the field of linguistics.

[2] Anvita Abbi was born on 9 January 1949, in Agra[3][4] to a family that had produced a number of Hindi writers.

[8][12] Later researches on Andamanese people by other scholars have reported to have confirmed Abbi's findings by discovering two distinct haplogroups of the region, viz.

Current position: Director, Center of Oral and Tribal Literature Sahtiya Akademi, New Delhi India.

Adjunct Professor, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and the President of the Linguistic society of India.

[6] Anvita Abbi has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses at various platforms and at many institutions of repute.

[7][34] She has held the position of the Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany for three years, 200, 2003 and 2010.