Status of lesser-known languages in India

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Language situation and language policies in South Asia
4. Status of lesser-known languages in India 31
5. Minority language policies and politics in Nepal 61
6. Language policy, multilingualism and language vitality in Pakistan 73
7. Lesser-known language communities of South Asia: Linguistic and sociolinguistic case studies
8. Vanishing voices: A typological sketch of Great Andamanese 107
9. Lisu orthographies and email 125
10. Shina in contemporary Pakistan 137
11. The rise of ethnic consciousness and the politicization of language in west-central Nepal 161
12. Why Ladakhi must not be written – Being part of the Great Tradition: Another kind of global thinking 175
13. Information and communication technologies and languages of South Asia
14. The impact of technology on language diversity and multilingualism 195
15. The impact of technological advances on Tamil language use and planning 203
16. Corpus-building for South Asian languages 211
17. Digitized resources for languages of Nepal 243
18. Multimedia: A community-oriented information and communication technology 257
19. Language survival kits 279
20. Grammatically based language technology for minority languages 293
21. Supporting lesser-known languages: The promise of language technology 317
22. Worrying about ethics and wondering about “informed consent”: Fieldwork from an Americanist perspective 339
23. Backmatter 371