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Berlin : Lit, c2009
Studies on Asia [Lit] ; 3
Titolo e contributi: Language policy and linguistic minorities in India : an appraisal of the linguistic rights of minorities in India / Thomas Benedikter
Pubblicazione: Berlin : Lit, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 229 p. : tab., fot. ; 21 cm
Serie: Studies on Asia [Lit] ; 3
ISBN: 9783643102317
Data:2009
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: India not only is concerned with inevitable multilinguism, but also with the rights of many millions of speakers of minority languages. Linguistic minorities in India often feel discriminated and they experience on a daily basis that their mother tongues are deemed worthless dialects that have little utility in modern life. Is the extinction of so many languages the inevitable price to be paid for economic modernization, cultural homogenisation and the multilingual fabric of India's society at large?
