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When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for ...
India, through its whole extent, as now measured by geographers, contains in its computed population ol a hundred and forty millions, at least as many languages and nationalities as Europe.
The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%).
Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn’t just about language – it’s a flashpoint in India’s struggle ...
People who speak English in India will "soon feel ashamed," according to a senior government minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But the party's efforts to promote Hindi are facing ...
States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.
More than half of the languages spoken by India’s 1.3 billion people may disappear over the next 50 years. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PSLI) has studied the country's languages ...
A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka ...
O n some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding her home on one of India’s Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky. According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above ...
A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka ...