A woman missing from an outback town in WA since October 8, 1999 was seen that morning on the back of Harley Davidson being ridden by a bikie gang member later killed by a sniper, an inquest into her death has been told. On Friday, Club Deroes associate Raymond Fisher told an inquest into her death he was "positive" he …
Published : Mar 23, 2023 10:35 IST - 7 MINS READ Over the last three decades, scientists have come up with mathematical models to predict the life of languages. Obviously, the nations and communities that have learnt to live within a single language, whose economic well-being is not dependent on knowing languages other than their own, whose knowledge systems are …
An onslaught on a community often takes the form of intense loathing of the language it communicates in. One of the earliest myths associated with Urdu is that it was a camp language, spoken and perhaps also invented in the army camps of the Mughals, by soldiers of Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindustani origins, who borrowed heavily from one another’s …
PROF. Ganesh N. Devy, a scholar and cultural activist, has written in the areas of literary criticism, literary history, philosophy, education, anthropology and linguistics. Back home, I started plotting on the map of India the tribal areas against the main languages until then known to me as ‘the languages of India’. He was excited about the presence of ‘different’ languages …
