Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia
Linguistic Structure and Language Dynamics in South Asia

Author: Anvita Abbi

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9788120817654

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The Eighteenth Round Table of South Asian Language Analysis (SALA) was organised by the Centre of Linguistics and English, School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), Janurary 4-6, 1997. The conference was attended by scholars from all over the world and about 150 papers were presented in 20 parallel sessions and plenary sessions. This volume is a representative sample of the breadth and quality of research that is being carried out in South Asian linguistics today.

The Indo-Aryan Languages
The Indo-Aryan Languages

Author: Danesh Jain

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-07-26

Total Pages: 1086

ISBN-13: 1135797110

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The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.