languages
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How K Chinnappa Gowda and B Surendra Rao translated the oral language Tulu for the world
Deepa Bhasthi
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Mother Tamil, father Sanskrit: The influence of Dravidian culture on Sanskrit
Srinivas Reddy
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From GN Devy’s new book: How Adivasis have become activists to tackle the neglect of their languages
GN Devy
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Hinglish is older than you think. The earliest instance of its use dates back to 1827
Karthik Venkatesh
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Watch: Korean musician sings versions of popular pop songs in over ten languages (including Hindi)
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Comic routine depicts hilarious conversation between Marathi- and Bengali-speaking roommates
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Six people hilariously attempt tongue twisters in one another’s languages
Scroll Staff
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Fun watch: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘French’, ‘British’, ‘American’ accents while speaking in English
Scroll Staff
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‘Purity of language is a myth’: Poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar breaks down a Urdu sentence
Scroll Staff
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International Mother Language Day: The story of the secret language of hijras
Vaishali Shroff
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‘Your accent is so sexy’: Comedian Zeervan adds Parsi to the popular online series
Scroll Staff
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International Translation Day: What is the social role of translation in contemporary India?
N Kalyan Raman
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Watch: African-American man understands mother-in-law’s Malayalam, delighting social media
Scroll Staff
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How Rwanda became a melting pot of four official languages
Jeremie Eyssette, The Conversation
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‘Translations’: How this play from 1980 artistically depicts Anglo-Irish relations
Alison Garden, The Conversation
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Watch: In this Bihar school, Hindi and Urdu are being taught on one blackboard in the same classroom
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English
Scroll Staff
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Watch: Students learn endangered tribal language Gondi at school in Maharashtra
Scroll Staff
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‘I’ll talk in Tamil henceforth, let me know if you can understand’: DMK MP Kanimozhi in Lok Sabha
Scroll Staff
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Did the Namboodiris change Malayalam to add Sanskrit elements to the language?
Peggy Mohan