Languages of Southasia

The Bible in Urdu. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

06 Jul 2022

Illustration: Akila Weerasinghe / Himal Southasian

Culture

Translating a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages

Abhishek Avtans

07 Apr 2021

Culture

Under the sun: Summer words and phrases in Southasian languages

Abhishek Avtans

18 May 2021

Culture

Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia

Abhishek Avtans

04 Mar 2022

Culture

The role of contact languages in Southasian multilingual milieux

Abhishek Avtans

24 Aug 2021

Communal village meal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indian Ocean, c1890. Artist: Gillot. Photo: Heritage Images / IMAGO

Culture

Languages of the islanders in Southasia: Part 1

Abhishek Avtans

14 Apr 2023

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

Languages of Southasia

Languages of Southasia

Languages and labour on tea estates in South India and Sri Lanka

The languages of tea-estate workers in Assam and Darjeeling

Beyond the binary: Gender in Southasian languages

Sign languages matter: National and endangered sign languages of Southasia

It takes a village to save a language: Pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia

The holy grail of language preservation: Bible translations in Southasia

Translating a pandemic: The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages

Under the sun: Summer words and phrases in Southasian languages

Seeing with fingertips: Braille in Southasia

The role of contact languages in Southasian multilingual milieux

Languages of the islanders in Southasia: Part 1