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Cultural invisibility – India’s 600 potentially endangered languages

Posted on 20/04/2022 by website administrator

Literacy level among women in India being alarmingly low, it will be necessary to expand our school education system so as to introduce and include as many languages as possible, so that the girl children are educated in their own … Continue reading →

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Languages, traditions and culture of tribals to be protected: New dictionaries of unique tribal languages – Karnataka State Tribal Research Institute

Posted on 02/06/2020 by website administrator

MYSURU: For the first time, Karnataka State Tribal Research Institute (KSTRI) has come up with a novel initiative to preserve languages of tribals in the state. KSTRI is gearing to launch dictionaries of tribal languages. As part of the work … Continue reading →

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“A View of Higher Education in India”, a public lecture by Prof. Ganesh Devy delivered on September 26th, 2010 at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Posted on 24/02/2019 by website administrator

All languages created by human communities are our collective cultural heritage. Therefore, it is our collective responsibility to ensure that they do not face the global phonocide let loose in our time. | Read or download the full lecture here … Continue reading →

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Conference on unrecognized languages: Bhasha Research Centre – Gujarat

Posted on 13/04/2013 by website administrator

The Indian Express, Vadodara, Thu Feb 18 2010 Come March, and the city’s linguistic diversity will increase manifold, though for a few days. […] People speaking as many as 250 languages, which are not recognised by the Indian constitution, will … Continue reading →

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Tribal languages face extinction as “young people want to be part of the mainstream culture” – Uttarakhand

Posted on 15/03/2013 by website administrator

Excerpts from The Telegraph, Calcutta, Sunday , July 25 , 2010Death of a languageJad, a tribal language in Uttarakhand, is slowly going extinct. Hemchhaya Detravels to the tribe’s remote habitat and explains how many native languages around the world are dwindling … Continue reading →

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