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

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

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

The researchers in the field of theoretical and theoretically inclined descriptive linguistics have for a long time felt a need for detailed and clearly present

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