languages
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
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