South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages,
The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages display? Do we expect to find the same
An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international
First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pak