The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the rese

An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international

Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pak

This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan language