A few centuries on, in the 1800s, it saw a dramatic revival. Amid a boom in publishing and British scholarship of Indian languages, written works began to appear, including magazines and periodicals.

These studies established that the 10 original Great Andamanese languages belonged to a single family. Moreover, that family was unique in having a grammatical system based on the human body at ...

There are thousands of languages and dialects spoken in India, but most children learn three: the local tongue, Hindi and ...