Languages

Thrust on vocational course material in regional languages

25 May 2012

The development of instructional material for vocational courses in regional languages is one of the thrust areas of employment generation for the National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT), L...

23 local languages of MP documented during survey

25 May 2012

People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) survey is a unique, one of its kind, which identifies the languages not listed in the Census of India but still being spoken by a large number of people.

Categories for kinship vary between languages

24 May 2012

Different languages refer to family relationships in different ways. For example, English speakers use two terms -- grandmother and grandfather -- to refer to grandparents, while Mandarin Chinese uses four terms. Many possible kinship categories, however, are never observed, which raises the question of why some kinship categories appear in the languages of the world but others do not. A new ...