Book on languages of Jammu and Kashmir released SRINAGAR — A book on the languages of Jammu and Kashmir ‘The Languages of Jammu and Kashmir’ was released Monday at Gandhi Bhavan, University of Kashmir. The book is the twelfth volume in the series of books about the ‘living languages of India.’ The book is a survey of the ‘characteristics and features of various languages of Jammu and Kashmir.’ The survey was carried by People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PSIL) which is a rights-based movement for carrying out a nationwide survey of Indian languages as people perceive them. “PSIL has covered 780 languages in the entire country including the languages of Jammu and Kashmir,” said GN Devy, Chief Editor People’s Linguistic Survey of India. The whole survey of the Indian languages will appear in 50 volumes, of which Jammu and Kashmir forms the twelfth volume. ‘The Languages of Jammu and Kashmir,’ is edited by Omkar N. Koul, a Kashmiri scholar. “Our survey focuses on languages on indigenous people and marginalized people,” he said. The volume is divided into three sections and covers languages as Kashmiri, Dogri, Balti, Gojri, Ladakhi, Pashtu, Kishtiwari, Shina, Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu and others. “The book presents the linguistic characteristics of languages apart of nomenclature. I hope the book opens new areas of research in the feild,” Omkar N. Koul said. According to the book, Kashmiri language is spoken by 5,362,349 people in the J&K, while as Dogri has 2,282,589 speakers. Burukshahi, a language spoken by Botrag people of the valley has only 300 speakers, while Ladakhi has 104, 618 speakers. Nine of the twenty contributors of the book are Kashmiri linguistic scholars. ”Our purpose was to document languages as they are used in contemporary time,” said a scholar.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:00:41 +0000
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