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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Two endangered languages find their voice -M Somasekhar

Two endangered languages find their voice -M Somasekhar

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published Published on Apr 8, 2018   modified Modified on Apr 8, 2018
-The Hindu Business Line

Hyderabad University linguist discovers Walmiki and Malhar, spoken by small communities in Odisha.

Hyderabad:
A linguist from the University of Hyderabad (UoH) has stumbled on two languages called Walmiki and Malhar both predominantly in the remote region’s of Odisha.

The languages are categorised `endangered’ as the number of people speaking is small. For instance Malhar is spoken by just 75 including children from a particular community. These people live in a remote and isolated hamlet about 165 kms from Bhubaneswar, the capital of Odisha.

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The discovery has been made and announced by Panchanan Mohanty of the Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies at the UoH. He has collected data, did preliminary analysis and published a paper in the proceedings of the XX Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, UK.

Walmiki is spoken in the district of Koraput and in the bordering districts of Andhra Pradesh. The etymology of the name is also interesting. It indicates that the community speaking the language have descent from the Indian saint-poet Valmiki, who is credited to have written one version of the epic Ramayana.

The Union Government has been making efforts to document the endangered tribal and minor languages. There are several languages unknown to the world and waiting to be discovered and documented. India is also considered a linguists Paradise and termed a sociolinguistic giant, the University said in a press release.

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The Hindu Business Line, 6 April, 2018, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/variety/discovery-of-two-new-languages-by-uoh-researchers/article23458114.ece


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