Hi Niraj,
Thanks for engaging with this difficult question. I think we may have to
look at sizeable populations speaking a certain language while deciding how
to classify where it is spoken. I was surprised to see your remark that
Dravidian languages are spoken in Pakistan. I was not aware of this
Hello Abhishek,
Thanks for your response. I'm quite interested in hearing about earlier
debates on this and related lists on the Indian languages question. Glad to
know about the renaming of your project!
Using the term 'Asian languages' will open up a whole new set of issues.
Why not then say 'Eu
Interestingly - People are so sensitive over these words.
I was casual while using those for 'Spoken Wikipedia for Indic Languages'
and request for participation was sent to all mailing lists.
There was debate about Indic vs Indian vs Dravidian on same Mailing list
about usage.
And strong resista
Dear Mam,
I understand & appreciate the depth of thought process and inputs put behind
this question about use of words "*Indian*" or "*Indic*". I'm very much
convinced since all the languages we are considering belong to different
classes and categories, geographically and origin wise too, and ne
