Thursday, September 5, 2013

Over Last Five Decades, 200 Languages Lost in Diverse India

A new study says that over the last 50 years, more than 200 languages have vanished in India. The study has blamed urban migration and fear among nomadic tribes of speaking their traditional tongues for the situation. The extensive study, conducted throughout the country over four years and released this week, has found 230 languages have "elapsed" while another 870 have survived the test of time in richly diverse but rapidly modernising India, home to a vast number ...

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