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Title: | Like Community, Like Language: Seventy-Five Years of Sindhi in Post-Partition India | Contributor(s): | Iyengar, Arvind (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2021 | Early Online Version: | 2021-11-12 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/32639 | Open Access Link: | https://brill.com/view/journals/joss/1/1/article-p1_3.xml | Abstract: | Since Partition, the Sindhi language in India has frequently been written off by scholars and laypersons alike, citing supposed linguistic corruption, ever-shrinking domains of use, and near-obsolescence in written form. However, census figures have consistently registered an increase in Sindhi speakers in India over the last seven decades. This article argues for a fresh approach to analyzing the journey of Sindhi in post-Partition India to explain this apparent discrepancy. It adopts a language-ecological perspective and evaluates salient grammatical, sociolinguistic, and script-related changes in Indian Sindhi over the last seventy-five years. The article maintains that these changes represent structurally and sociolinguistically plausible adaptations to the language’s ecosystem since Partition. It concludes that, despite a reduction in domains of use, changes in Indian Sindhi, together with an increase in speakers, testify to the language’s survival in India. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Sindhi Studies, 1(1), p. 1-32 | Publisher: | Brill | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 2667-0925 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200315 Indian Languages |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470411 Sociolinguistics 470406 Historical, comparative and typological linguistics 470311 Indian languages |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950202 Languages and Literacy 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130202 Languages and linguistics 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture 130201 Communication across languages and culture |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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