"Dialects are the avant-garde teams exploring new semantic possibilities"

Linguist GANESH DEVY has just published a new volume of a unique language survey that is based on geography and people's vernacular claims. He …

‘English wiped out local languages elsewhere, not in India’

Eighty-Five years after George A Grierson, a British administrator, conducted the first survey of languages in India, another such exercise has …

Assam’s lost and found languages

Linguistic survey helps some tribes rediscover their language; 55 languages spoken in the state

Survey tracks down only speaker of Majhi in India

Peoples Linguistic Survey of India, released on Thursday, has traced near extinct languages like Majhi, a language spoken by boatmen in Sikkim …