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Linguistic Pride Erased

Language, like culture, thrives on diversity and inclusion. No language belongs to a particular religion—Sanskrit is not inherently Hindu, nor are Arabic and Persian exclusively Muslim. Urdu, as much ...
Determination of an official language is one of the most complex and important tasks befalling every multilinguistic state. This decision is political in nature. Its impact for members of linguistic ...
“LANGUAGE is not religion. It is a yardstick to measure the civilisational march of a community and its people.” With these words, the Indian supreme court, in its recent judgement ‘Mrs Varshatai vs ...
The Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University offers various courses in linguistics. Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human ...
“Before us is a fellow citizen who has taken great pains to take this matter twice to the High Court and then twice again before this court. What the appellant thinks may also be the thinking of many ...
The Indian Supreme Court recently upheld the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra, in a significant ruling emphasising linguistic and cultural diversity in the ...