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Video: An untrained linguist travelled across India to document more than a thousand dying languages

Name: Video: An untrained linguist travelled across India to document more than a thousand dying languages
Uploaded: 2018-04-07T07:00:34.373303+05:30
Channel: Ramakrishnan M
Description: The census of India says the country is losing its languages. But Ganesh Devy and his People's Linguistic Survey of India seem to think otherwise.

The census of India says the country is losing its languages. But Ganesh Devy and his People's Linguistic Survey of India seem to think otherwise.

Ramakrishnan M

Apr 07, 2018 · 07:00 am

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