Language in South Asia Hardcover Cambridge University Press 9780521781411 LN

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Language in South Asia\nby Braj B. Kachru\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Braj B. Kachru\nTitle: Language in South Asia\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Sociolinguistics\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2008\nISBN-13: 9780521781411\nISBN-10: 0521781418\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nSouth Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fi.