Father tongue, mother land: the birth of languages in South Asia (Record no. 23159)
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| control field | 20250901155749.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780670099740 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 491.4 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mohan, Peggy |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Father tongue, mother land: the birth of languages in South Asia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Gurugram |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 361p., bib., note., ind., 22 cm X 14 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Recommended by: Sanskruti Deshpande |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Summary: How do languages mix? Does it begin in chaos, new migrants and old inhabitants needing a pidgin to communicate? Or does it happen more smoothly, in stages? And what is a prakrit? Why do we hear only of prakrits, and never of pidgins, in South Asia?<br/><br/>In Father Tongue, Motherland, Peggy Mohan looks at exactly how the mixed languages in South Asia came to life. Like a flame moving from wick to wick in early encounters between male settlers and locals skilled at learning languages, the language would start to ‘go native’ as it spread. This produced ‘father tongues’, with words taken from the migrant men’s language, but grammars that preserved the earlier languages of the ‘motherland’.<br/><br/>Looking first at Dakkhini, spoken in the Deccan where north meets south, Mohan goes on to build an X-ray image of a vanished language of the Indus Valley Civilization from the ‘ancient bones’ visible in the modern languages of the area. In the east, she explores another migration of men 4000 years ago that left its mark on language beyond the Ganga-Yamuna confluence. How did the Dravidian people and their languages end up in south India? And what about Nepal, where men coming into the Kathmandu Valley 500 years ago created a hybrid eerily similar to what we find in the rest of the subcontinent? |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Contents<br/>1. The Road Within<br/>2. The Deccan as a Twilight Zone<br/>3. The Taming of the Ergative Dragon<br/>4. In Search of ' Language X '<br/>5. Across the Sangam<br/>6. The Dravidian Dreamtime<br/>7. A Chimera on the Northern Rim<br/>8. The Return of the Tiramisu Bear<br/>A Note on Spelling |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| General subdivision | South Asia Languages |
| -- | education |
| -- | essays |
| -- | language arts & disciplines |
| -- | linguistics |
| -- | student life & student affairs |
| -- | teacher & student mentoring |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | KEIC | KEIC | 08/29/2025 | Amazon | 699.00 | AMD2-2087800 | 491.4 MOH | 23968 | 09/01/2025 | 449.00 | 09/01/2025 | Books |