Do you know how many languages are officially recognised by the constitution of India? India officially recognises 22 ...

In the digital age, Kashmiri is progressively neglected. Although languages such as Hindi and Tamil flourish online, Kashmiri ...

Concurrently, ongoing developments in the study of Indo-Aryan languages – noted for their rich retroflex and non-retroflex contrasts – have revealed both language-specific articulatory ...

UNESCO has declared Kashmiri ‘vulnerable’—can revival efforts reverse its decline? Kashmiri, a member of the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan language ...

Islamic conquests from the eighth century replaced Brahmi-derived scripts with Perso-Arabic in Afghanistan and Pakistan, ...

Multiple lines of evidence show Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and Indo-Aryan speakers migrated at various points all across the subcontinent. Prehistoric Indian languages were as diverse as today’s.

As noted above, Tamil literature and writing appeared around 300 BCE. The earliest Tamil literature is called the Sangam poetry, after assemblies of poets who compiled it. Linguists, however, ...

Even so, the mutual influence of the two languages on each other is evident.” Surrounded by Indic and Iranian languages for many centuries, Brahui is said to have only 10 per cent of Dravidian words, ...