Dialectical

Language of the islanders in Southasia: Part 2

Languages spoken in the islands of the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh demonstrate language contact and convergence, and offer insights into the histories, cultures and linguistic diversity of the region.

| Jul 03, 2023

Languages of the islanders in Southasia: Part 1

Linguistic diversity and study of endangered languages in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in Southasia can help our understanding of human history, cognition and the natural world

| Apr 14, 2023

Beyond the binary 

Gender in Southasian languages.

| Nov 22, 2022

The holy grail of language preservation

Bible translations in Southasia.

| Jul 06, 2022

Seeing with fingertips

Braille in Southasia.

| Mar 04, 2022

Sign languages matter

National and endangered sign languages of Southasia.

| Nov 08, 2021

Shaking the melting pot

The role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.

| Aug 24, 2021

It takes a village to save a language

Pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia.

| Jul 13, 2021

Under the sun

Summer words and phrases in Southasian languages.

| May 18, 2021

Translating a pandemic

The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.

| Apr 07, 2021

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Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives

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Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast

Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast

How Southasia and Oman intertwined

In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa