RT @Himalistan
"The idea of speaking ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ languages has led to a situation where almost 96 percent of contact languages of the world today are either endangered or have become dormant."
From August 2021: @avtansa on contact languages.
https://www.himalmag.com/shaking-the-melting-pot-dialectical-2021/
RT @Himalistan
"There are around 16 unique Braille codes from a total of 20 codes used for Southasian languages."
From March 2022: @avtansa on braille in Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/seeing-with-fingertips-braille-southasia-dialectical-2022/
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"As the pandemic unfolded in this linguistically diverse region, many languages spoken here had to adapt to the sudden influx of scientific terminology."
From April 2021: @avtansa on the impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-southasia-in-languages-2021/
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"Contact languages are always in a state of flux. While the old ones are threatened and on the verge of extinction, new ones are born."
From August 2021: @avtansa on the role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.
https://www.himalmag.com/shaking-the-melting-pot-dialectical-2021/
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"Mixed languages are languages with split-ancestry which arose due to expressive needs in a multilingual community, and whose linguistic ancestry is difficult to define."
From July 2021: @avtansa on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/pidgins-creoles-mixed-languages-southasia-dialectical-2021/
RT @KShrikaanth
On #RepublicDay, Proud & thrilled to share my sanketi translation of PadmaBhushan SrI SL Bhyrappa’s Vamsha Vriksha, published by Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati
ಪದ್ಮಭೂಷಣ ಭೈರಪ್ಪನವರ ವಂಶ ವೃಕ್ಷದ ನನ್ನ ಸಂಕೇತಿ ಅನುವಾದವನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯಾಗುತಿದೆ
Pl RT & share widely🙏
RT @KShrikaanth
kannaDa
Blouse- ರವಿಕೆ, ಕುಪ್ಪಸ, ಕಂಚುಕ/ಕಂಚುಕಿ, ಬಾಚಿ ravike, kuppasa, kan̄cuka/kan̄cuki, bāci
Petticoat- ಒಳಲಂಗ, ಒಳಪಾವಡೆ oḷalaṅga, oḷapāvaḍe
sankēti
Blouse- ಕುಪ್ಫಾಯು, ರವಿಕ, ಕಂಚುಕಿ kupphāyu, ravika, kan̄cuki
Petticoat- ಉಳ್ಲಂಗು uḷlaṅgu
In both, Bra is ಬಾಡಿ bāḍi (<bodice) https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1617206502783160322
“Why in many Indian languages we ''eat oaths''? Qasam / Kasam khānā क़सम खाना is a common expression for swearing an oath in H/U. The reason we ''eat'' the oath and not ''take'' it, lies in its ancient Iranian connections. In ancient Iran, there was a Zoroastrian ritual ...1/2”
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"Sign languages are fully developed, rule-governed linguistic systems that have their own grammars which are not dependent on spoken languages."
From November 2021: @avtansa on national and endangered sign languages of Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/sign-languages-matter-dialectical-2021/
