Language
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Between the lines: What Kazakhstan’s move from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin alphabet signifies
Andrew Linn, The Conversation
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Is American English going to take over British English completely?
Paul Baker, The Conversation
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Can translations save India’s endangered ‘mother tongues’?
Parvathy Raveendran
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Why is Persian dying out in India, despite its deep roots? An Iranian finds the answer in Kolkata
Maryam Papi
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Watch: This satirical “infomercial” tells people how to rid themselves of their mother tongue
Scroll Staff
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Can translations become a vehicle of cultural resistance? No, because they always were
Parvathy Raveendran
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Readers’ comments: ‘Hindus across the spectrum should unite to protect Hinduism’
Scroll
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Watch: After Hindi, signage in English faces pro-Kannada activists’ wrath in Bengaluru
Scroll Staff
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Ma, mati, manush and my mother tongue: Bengal’s language politics is behind the unrest in Darjeeling
Urbashi Pradhan
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Enterprising Pakistanis are gearing up for a Chinese influx
Shazia Hasan
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Seventy years on, a fraught question still troubles Pakistan: Should Urdu be its official language?
Ali Raj
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Regional language internet usage is where the real growth will be in India
Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com
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Anumeric people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
Caleb Everett, The Conversation
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Watch: Why not call a vagina a vagina, asks a 16-year-old in her slam poetry
Scroll Staff
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This meditative biography of Tamil is a breathtaking sweep over a linguistic landscape
Veena Muthuraman
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Watch: This song celebrates the right to speak in one’s mother tongue in 12 different languages
Scroll Staff
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It's Mother Language Day. Which 'mother language' did India's lawmakers want after Independence?
Devapriya Roy
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'Variegated cancerous concoctions of corruption': Supreme excerpts from the Sasikala verdict
Rohan Venkataramakrishnan
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The unspeakable things that leave us at a loss for words
Silvia Jonas
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A rose by any other name: When Turkish was written in the Greek, Armenian and even Syrian script
Michael Erdman