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Father Tongue Motherland : The Birth Of Language In South Asia
by Peggy Mohan (Author),
Viking (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: 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 in
early encounters between male settlers and locals skilled at learning languages,
the language would start to ‘go native’ as
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9780670099740
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Viking
Publishing Date 2025-01-30
Product Edition 1
Total Pages 360