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Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia by Peggy Mohan

Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia

Peggy Mohan

373 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history
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How do languages mix? Does it begin in chaos, new migrants and old inhabitants needing a pidgin to communicate? Or does it happen more smoothly, in stages? And what is a prakrit? Why do we hear only of prakrits, and never of pidgins, in South Asia...

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