Language Education & Communication

Dr. Omkar N. Koul is Chairman of the Indian Institute of Language Studies. He has held the positions of Director, and Professor-cum-Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Professor of LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, and Principal of Northern Regional Language center, Patiala. His publications related to Kashmiri language and linguistics include Linguistics Studies in Kashmiri (1977), Kashmiri: A Socio linguistics Survey (co-author), 1983), An intensive Course in Kashmsiri (1985), Spoken Kashmiri: A Language Course (1987), An Intermediate Course in Kashmiri (1995), Kashmiri: A Descriptive-Cognitive Grammar (co-author, 1997), Kashmiri Language Linguistics and Culture: An Annotated Bibliography (2000) and a large number of papers.