language
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Watch: Woman shifts seamlessly between English accents from over a dozen countries
Scroll Staff
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Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading
Mario Saraceni, The Conversation
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How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary
Krishna Kumar Pandey
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Reading, word lists and a whole lot of practice: How to become a spelling bee champion
Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation
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Bengali to Kannada, Sanskrit to French: How I became multilingual
Prithwiraj Mukherjee
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‘Mother tongue should be prioritised just like English’: Javed Akhtar at event in Lucknow
Scroll Staff
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All caps, ellipsis, punctuation? Young people may be facing a communication divide with older ones
Daniel Bürkle, The Conversation
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Why deaf students should not be forced to speak
Nolina Minj
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Union against Centre: What Tamil Nadu’s change of terminology means for the federalism debate
Sarath Pillai
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International Mother Language Day: How Indian publishers are helping children read in local tongues
Rati Girish
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The doctor and priest who gave life to an Adivasi script
Nolina Minj
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Mauritian Bhojpuri is being dressed in Hindu nationalist robes – and I’m in mourning
Vedita Cowaloosur
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Clean chit, taluka, zilla: How Persian lingers on in India’s legal and revenue language
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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‘On the Origins of Human Speech and Language’ shows how it all began on the African continent
George Poulos, The Conversation
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What Oxford’s word of the year ‘goblin mode’ says about the mental health discourse and social media
Zulekha Shakoor Rajani
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How the modern Persian qawwali canon emerged from an Uttarakhand shrine 90 years ago
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns
Ryan McKay, The Conversation Shiri Lev-Ari, The Conversation
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How Indo-Persian, the language of cosmopolitan India for six centuries, fell into decline
Adhiraj Parthasarathy Mohammad Dawood
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Lessons from Chhattisgarh’s new English-medium school programme
Johanna Deeksha
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As extreme weather events surge, what happens when there is no language to talk of climate change?
Omair Ahmad