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This is the fourth of the six lectures delivered by prof. Velcheru Narayana Rao as part of the Nauras lecture series held at Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, May 2019.
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We have been translating for a long time. As someone who has translated almost fifteen books from Telugu…
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In this interview, he presents a representative opinion of the Korlai villagers about their language, why they think it is necessary to preserve it and their worries about the increasing influence of other languages due to TV and mobile phones. It provides a new perspective regarding the values…
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Language is a living system, continually changing and evolving. As much as the existence of the language is based on the people who speak it, the existence and worldview of people is also dependent on the language they speak. When people migrate from rural areas to cities, not only do the numerous…
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Languages are living systems that undergo constant processes of structural and semantic changes. One such way in which languages change is through contact with other languages. When people speaking one language come in contact with another dominant language and start using it for various purposes,…
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This is the first of the six lectures delivered by Prof. Velcheru Narayana Rao as part of the Nauras lecture series held at Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, May, 2019.
TranscriptI never really wanted anything to be recorded. Orality in my world is temporary. It should die immediately…
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Professor Kanji Patel talks about the necessity for the formation of an institution like Bhasha and the importance of People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI). He stresses the need to identify and document Indian languages, especially languages of indigenous, nomadic, pastoral, coastal and forest…
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The Charak[1] Festival of Kolikata (Kolkata)
Tunoya says, ‘The city teaches you Kotwali’.[2]
Tunoya’s Tappa[3]
Drum-beats can be heard in all four corners of the city of Calcutta, the chorki’s[4] back itches; ironsmiths prepare baan, dashlaki, kanta and bonti, various pointed and sharp…
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Fortuitous yet happy circumstances introduce into Konkani the Roman script brought in by mainly the Portuguese missionaries, which it adopts readily for its writing, employing some diacritical marks to make the pronunciation of this exotic language readable to its young neophytes brimming with…
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