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Amid the maddening voices for one language, one globalized and homogenized world, and one English, Professor Pattanayak’s has, perhaps, been the lone voice of reason. Pattanayak understands the Indian language scenario better than most scholars of Indian languages do. Having held various key positions, besides being the founder Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, he was uniquely placed with a privileged front-seat view of ...
Amid the maddening voices for one language, one globalized and homogenized world, and one English, Professor Pattanayak’s has, perhaps, been the lone voice of reason. Pattanayak understands the Indian language scenario better than most scholars of Indian languages do. Having held various key positions, besides being the founder Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, he was uniquely placed with a privileged front-seat view of ...
Multilingualism in India is a challenging and stimulating study of the nature and structure of multilingualism in the Indian subcontinent. India, with 1652 mother tongues, between 200 and 700 languages belonging to four language families, written in ten major script systems and a host of minor ones, represents multilingualism unparalleled in the democratic world. With a multitude of communities, its multilingualism matches its pluriculturalism. The articles in ...