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100			_aMohan, Peggy
245			_aFather tongue, mother land: the birth of languages in South Asia
260			_aGurugram _bPenguin Random House _c2025
300			_a361p., bib., note., ind., 22 cm X 14 cm
500			_aRecommended by: Sanskruti Deshpande
520			_aSummary: 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? 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’. 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			_aContents 1. The Road Within 2. The Deccan as a Twilight Zone 3. The Taming of the Ergative Dragon 4. In Search of ' Language X ' 5. Across the Sangam 6. The Dravidian Dreamtime 7. A Chimera on the Northern Rim 8. The Return of the Tiramisu Bear A Note on Spelling
650			_xSouth Asia Languages _xeducation _xessays _xlanguage arts & disciplines _xlinguistics _xstudent life & student affairs _xteacher & student mentoring
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