«English is so widely known […] not thanks to any inherent syntactic or grammatical felicity but because it is an artifact of the British Empire and the American twentieth century» («Should a Country Speak a Single Language ?», https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/should-a-country-speak-a-single-language). • #langue #lecturedusoir
Should India Speak a Single Language?

Samanth Subramanian reports on Ganesh Devy, the scholar documenting India’s languages and pushing against the B.J.P.’s campaign to make the country embrace Hindi.

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