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Direct linkKonnerth, Linda Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final language. This dissertation offers a description of the dialect spoken in the hills of the Karbi Anglong district. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Grammar, Geographic Regions
Peer reviewedKhubchandani, Lachman M. – Language Sciences, 1974
Sociolinguistic patterns of India are discussed. (LG)
Descriptors: Demography, Language Patterns, Language Planning, Language Role
Download full textKhubchandani, Lachman M. – 1975
This article discusses the language planning problems that India faces. The distribution and usage of the various languages are outlined. There is considerable linguistic heterogeneity, with 80 languages currently being used as media of instruction at least at an elementary level, and 14 languages being used at the secondary level. Since language…
Descriptors: Dialects, Educational Policy, English, Hindi
Valentine, Tamara M. – 1994
This study examined the speech act of agreement and disagreement in the ordinary conversation of English-speakers in India. Data were collected in natural speech elicited from educated, bilingual speakers in cross-sex and same-sex conversations in a range of formal and informal settings. Subjects' ages ranged from 19 to about 60. Five agreement…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English, Foreign Countries
