Linguists hope to save endangered languages in India
UNESCO lists nearly 200 of India’s 900 languages as endangered. Others are dying fast as the county continues its rapid development. A team of researchers are working to catalog what’s left of them before they disappear completely.
Pakistani scholars concerned that Urdu script being lost to technology
Pakistan set to require telecom companies to block messages from a bizarre word list
My Failed Calls to Send Ramadan Greetings from Lucknow to Lahore
Authorities in Pakistan want to clamp down on unsolicited mobile phone text messages. But as Fahad Desmukh reports from Karachi, the order — and the list of words — have become a target of both ridicule and criticism.
Punjabi immersion, Nigerian pidgin radio, and Annoying “Americanisms”
Top five language stories this month including: The first Punjabi public school in the US, a and a British journalist rails against the invasion of what he calls Americanisms into British English.
Pakistan’s national language Urdu is in danger of disappearing. That’s because more of the country’s younger generation is using English phrases in their daily speak. The World’s Aaron Schachter tells us more.
