The country had 1,100 languages in 1961, but nearly 220 of them have vanished, said Ganesh Devy, writer and lead co-ordinator of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) project. The survey was carried out over a period of two years starting 2011. “We have found 780 languages and must have missed about 100 or about 880 languages. The rest have disappeared. It’s a sad loss,” said report
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:13:05 +0000
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