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Ostom Ray's Articles in Language

  • Telugu The Language, People And The Land Through Ages
    Telugu - the language, people and the land through ages. India officially has only 23 recognized languages, but these have given birth to more than 1700 mother tongues that have evolved over time from these different language families
  • Kannada - The Next Computer Language?
    Kannada, written using the Kannada script is ranked as the 29th most spoken and the 3rd oldest language in the world after Sanskrit and Tamil. It is one of the major Dravidian (of southern India) languages, spoken by 64 million speakers across the globe in its 20 odd various dialects. There are 55 million of them, who claim Kannada as their first language, or the mother tongue.
  • Is Indian Urdu Archaic?
    The question posed is itself wrong, basically because Urdu as a language is an offspring of Hindi and from India. Urdu and Hindi are still considered by many linguists as the same language.
  • Punjabi - The Language of People of the Land of Five (Punj) Rivers (Ab)
    The Punjabi language today is spoken by over a 100 million people in India and Pakistan alone. Punjabi, one of the recognized national languages of India is also official language of Punjab State. It is widely used in Delhi and Haryana, where it's the second official language and also in Himachal and J&K.
  • Free From Influence Of Perso-Arabic Influence - The Oriya Language
    Not many people know the fact that Oriya language is also spoken in Surat (Gujarat state), situated across Indian heartland thousands of kilometers from Orrisa, where it is the State language (besides being one of the 28 odd national languages). There are a total of 35 million people across the globe, who know and speak this language. It has a great semblance to Assamese, Bengali and Magadhi languages.
  • An Introduction to Pnuthi -The Ancient Bengali Manuscripts
    Ancient periods depended more on the manual works rather than upon machinery and it reflected on the ancient literatures as well; prints, being more recent a phenomenon, like many other ancient texts, Bengali books also used to be handwritten. A sharp contrast to the run-of-the-mill trend, these copies were made on demand and required special skills.

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