With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dom

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