Of little-known Indian languages and scripts
A story, probably apocryphal, talks of the Union Jack continuing to flutter over the lighthouse at Minicoy Island even as late as 1956. Not just the Mahl spoken in Minicoy, many other languages exist in various parts of India, little-known except to those who use them and perhaps, a few neighbouring communities. Derived from the Marathi word “modane” meaning “broken” or “bent”, it was believed that the letters of the script were derived from broken Devanagari letters. Similar to Hindi and Marathi and buttressed by words from the southern languages, this is a distinct language born as a result of migration of people from the Saurashtra region to this part of the world. Derived from the many Prakrits of ancient times, Bishnupriya belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family.
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