An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

The increasing globalization and centralization in the world is threatening the existence of a large number of smaller languages. In South Asia some locally dom

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcontinent. Speci

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pak