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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21196637 Title: Language variation in South Asia Author: William Bright Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN/ISSN: 0195063651 9780195063653 OCLC:21196637

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Language variation in South Asia

Author:	William Bright
Publisher:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.
Edition/Format:	Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	This volume contains 12 essays on the languages of South Asia, written by a leading authority on the subject.
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Subjects	Dravidian languages -- Variation. South Asia -- Languages -- Variation. Diglossia (Linguistics) View all subjects
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	William Bright Find more information about:
ISBN:	0195063651 9780195063653
OCLC Number:	21196637
Description:	xiv, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents:	Linguistic change in some Indian caste dialects -- Sociolinguistic variation and language change with A.K. Ramanujan -- Dravidian metaphony -- Language, social stratification, and cognitive orientation -- Complex verb forms in colloquial Tamil with J. Lindenfeld -- Phonological rules in literary and colloquial Kannada -- Hindi numerals -- The Dravidian enunciative vowel -- How not to decipher the Indus Valley inscriptions -- Archaeology, linguistics, and ancient Dravidian -- Written and spoken language in South Asia.
Responsibility:	William Bright.
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