Mission Impossible - Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects
The Intersection Season 2, Episode 1
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Mission Impossible - Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects
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Narrated by:
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Written by:
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Padmaparna Ghosh
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Samanth Subramanian
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Mission Impossible: Surveying Indian Languages And Dialects-
It took George A. Grierson about 30 years to finish his masterpiece - the Linguistic Survey of India, a monumental publication that documented 179 languages and 544 dialects across the extensive and diverse borders of India. Today these historic archives are available at the click of a mouse, but this compilation - of fables, songs, stories and epic poetry became a cornerstone of Indian language studies. Almost 100 years later, this epic work had a companion, when eminent Indian linguist Ganesh Devy’s People’s Survey of India was published. He identified 780 languages: some dead some in the process of dying some non-verbal and some that reflect the ones that Grierson recorded.
Music by Josh Woodward and Chris Zabriskie
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