The journey of Pallava script from Tamil Nadu to South East Asia

Ajay Kamalakaran

· Oct 26, 2021 · 11:30 am

Debunked: Five myths about what standard English is – and what it isn’t

Willem Hollmann, The Conversation

· Oct 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Scientists find striking parallels between the babbling of bat pups and human babies

Ahana Aurora Fernandez, The Conversation

· Sep 24, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Peggy Mohan’s book on India’s languages does not tell stories that suit the new political narrative

Umang Poddar

· Aug 28, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Punctuation: The surprise weapon of Black writers and journalists in their activism

Eurie Dahn, The Conversation

· Jun 22, 2021 · 05:30 pm

How Covid-19 has not only changed our vocabulary, but also made us use language more gently

Janice Pariat

· Jun 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Google Translate is sexist. What it needs is a little gender-sensitivity training

Stefanie Ullmann, The Conversation Danielle Saunders, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Five words that don’t mean what you think they do

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Apr 05, 2021 · 08:30 am

Is Rajasthani a single language or a spectrum of many related but distinct tongues?

Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Vishes Kothari

· Feb 28, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Comedian from Pakistan presents tutorial on how to speak English like Shashi Tharoor

Scroll Staff

· Feb 28, 2021 · 10:38 am

How to speak like a Goan: Words from the land of susegaad

Clyde D'Souza

· Feb 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

Coronavirus-related updates to the dictionary show how disruptions can quickly change a language

Roger J Kreuz, The Conversation

· Oct 13, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Watch: ‘Neighbourhood Teacher’ shows how language and words reveal casteist mentality

Scroll Staff

· Oct 11, 2020 · 05:27 pm

VD Savarkar’s language purification project was a precursor to creating a ‘Hindu language’

Surajkumar Thube

· Aug 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

Pandemic. Quarantine. Vaccine. What are the origins of the normalised vocabulary under Covid-19?

Karthik Venkatesh

· Jul 26, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Opinion: Why Pakistani schools must shift their focus from English to regional languages

Ajay Pinjani, Dawn.com Minha Khan, Dawn.com

· Jul 20, 2020 · 09:30 pm

How a Bihari lost her mother tongue to Hindi – but is now trying to get it back

Archana Singh

· Jun 30, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

We’re on ‘coronacation’ while we wait for ‘lexit’: How coronavirus is changing our language

Kate Burridge and Howard Manns, The Conversation

· May 12, 2020 · 06:30 pm

In ‘The Meaning of India’, Raja Rao offers an ‘Indian’ theory of how words and language work

Raja Rao

· May 11, 2020 · 08:30 am