languages

How a unique language survives in Kashmir’s tiny Burusho community

Despite being a small population, the Burusho community has been able to preserve their language through intergenerational communication and by prioritising their mother tongue over other languages in Kashmir

Beyond the binary 

Gender in Southasian languages.

| Nov 22, 2022

The holy grail of language preservation

Bible translations in Southasia.

| Jul 06, 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

Under the sun

Summer words and phrases in Southasian languages.

| May 18, 2021

The anatomy of Urdu

How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.

| Apr 12, 2021

Translating a pandemic

The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.

| Apr 07, 2021

What the Maithili Movement tells us about language politics in India

And resistance in the face of ‘Hindi imposition’.

| Oct 02, 2020

Seeding bhasa

The interaction of English and the languages of Southasia is often lamented for having led to a deterioration of the latter. But focusing on this alone misses out on what has been accomplished through this …

| Oct 01, 2009

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