Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia - Hardcover
by Peggy Mohan
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Language:EnglishPublisher:India Hamish HamiltonISBN-13:9780670099740ISBN-10:670099740UPC:9780670099740Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Linguistics, AnthropologyBook Topic:SociolinguisticsProduct ID:SC5GMTPYYZ
Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia
How do languages mix? Does it begin in chaos, new migrants and old inhabitants needing a pidgin to communicate? Or does it happen more smoothly, in stages? And what is a prakrit? Why do we hear only of prakrits, and never of pidgins, in South Asia?
In Father Tongue, Motherland, Peggy Mohan looks at exactly how the mixed languages in South Asia came to life. Like a flame moving from wick to wick...Language:EnglishPublisher:India Hamish HamiltonISBN-13:9780670099740ISBN-10:670099740UPC:9780670099740Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Linguistics, AnthropologyBook Topic:SociolinguisticsProduct ID:SC5GMTPYYZ
Born in Trinidad, West Indies, Peggy Mohan studied linguistics at the University of the West Indies and pursued a PhD in the same from the University of Michigan. She has taught linguistics at Howard University, Washington D.C., Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ashoka University, and mass communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is the author of Wanderers, Kings, Merchants (2021),...
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