When South India spoke Arabic | Trade interactions with Arabs led to the growth of hybrid languages
Languages have become a hot topic in India today, with a battle for linguistic supremacy raging across the country. But to constrain the nation’s linguistic diversity into monolithic grids is an impossible, and ill-advised task. With what would you replace words such as tahsildar, jama-bandi, asal, khaali, wasool, or jilla? Long before the English language imprinted itself on South Asia’s collective […]
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