Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India

Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India

Author: Anvita Abbi

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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ABOUT THE BOOK:This volume represents the first attempt to give a broad overview of the linguistic structures of indigenous and tribal languages of five major language families of India. such as Andamanese, Austroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Tib


Language Shifts Among the Scheduled Tribes in India

Language Shifts Among the Scheduled Tribes in India

Author: M. Ishtiaq

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9788120816176

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The present work attempts to identify spatial patterns fo the extent and nature of language shifts among the tribal population in India. It provides social, economic and political dimensions of changing linguistic identity. Based on both secondary and primary data, some of the socio-economic variables have been statistically tested through Correlation and Regression to determine the relationship with language shifts. The impact of urbanisation and regional development on the linguistic behaviour of the tribal population has been analysed.The study rejects the claim that language shift indicates the process of integration--rather it shows the process of assimilation of the tribal people into the majority culture group. In fact, language shifts among these societies have been perceived more often as social compulsions.The study emphasises the need of promoting and preserving the tribal languages as these are cultural heritage of India. The study may provide a basis to understand the dynamics of language shift--as it might have implications of language planning in multilingual societies like India.


Language and the Making of Modern India

Language and the Making of Modern India

Author: Pritipuspa Mishra

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1108425739

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Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.


American Indian Languages

American Indian Languages

Author: Lyle Campbell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0195140508

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Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.


Social Justice through Multilingual Education

Social Justice through Multilingual Education

Author: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009-08-20

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1847696856

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The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in school and society. In this book experts from around the world ask why this is, and show how it can be done. The book discusses general principles and challenges in depth and presents case studies from Canada and the USA, northern Europe, Peru, Africa, India, Nepal and elsewhere in Asia. Analysis by leading scholars in the field shows the importance of building on local experience. Sharing local solutions globally can lead to better theory, and to action for more social justice and equality through education.


Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India

Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India

Author: Thomas Benedikter

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3643102313

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India not only is concerned with inevitable multilingualism, but also with the rights of many millions of speakers of minority languages. As the political and cultural context privileges some major languages, linguistic minorities often feel discriminated against by the current language policy of the Union and the States. They experience on a daily basis that their mother tongues are deemed worthless dialects that have little utility in modern life. Many such languages have definitively disappeared, and several more are on the brink of extinction. Is this the inevitable price to be paid for economic modernization, cultural homogenisation and the multilingual fabric of India's society at large? This book is an effort to map India's linguistic minorities and to assess the language policy towards these communities. The author, a senior researcher of the EURAC (South Tyrol, Italy), assuming linguistic rights as a component of fundamental human rights, codified in a number of international covenants and in the Indian Constitution, provides an appraisal of the extent to which language rights are respected in India's multilingual reality, which takes into consideration the experiences of minority language protection in other regions.


Tribal Education in India

Tribal Education in India

Author: A.V. Yadappanavar

Publisher: Discovery Publishing House

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9788171416721

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Contents: Introduction, Review of Literature, Approach to Tribal Development, Design of the Study, Socio-Economic and Demographic Profile of the Respondents, Profile of Tribals in Andhra Pradesh, Impact of Education, Absenteeism, Stagnation and Wastage, Alternative Strategies of Development of Tribal Education: Non-Formal Education, Summary and Conclusions.