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
Nazrah Khan and Darash Dawood | Feb 01, 2023


The holy grail of language preservation
Bible translations in Southasia.
Abhishek Avtans | Jul 06, 2022

Sign languages matter
National and endangered sign languages of Southasia.
Abhishek Avtans | Nov 08, 2021

Shaking the melting pot
The role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.
Abhishek Avtans | Aug 24, 2021


The anatomy of Urdu
How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.
Hurmat Ali Shah | Apr 12, 2021

Translating a pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
Abhishek Avtans | Apr 07, 2021

What the Maithili Movement tells us about language politics in India
And resistance in the face of ‘Hindi imposition’.
The Editors | 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 …
Himansu S Mohapatra | Oct 01, 2009
