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Cambridge India Foreigners And Foreign Languages In India: A Sociolinguistic History by Shireesh Chaudhary
IndiaS Natural Wealth Knowledge Arts And Crafts Have Attracted Foreigners Throughout Its Long History. It Has Had Continuous Cultural Contact And Trade With Other Countries And In All This India Has Been Exposed To Many Foreign Languages Such As Arabic Bactrian Chinese Dutch English French Greek Hebrew Latin Persian Portuguese Turkish And In A Certain Sense Sanskrit. Each Of These Languages Went Through A Cycle Rising To The Position Of Power And Prestige And Eventually Declining And Yielding Place To Yet Another Language. In This Process All These Languages Interacted With The Native Languages Of India And Exchanged Sounds Words Sentences Idioms And Expressions Sometimes Even Giving Birth To New Languages. Foreigners And Foreign Languages In India: A Sociolinguistic History Tells The Story Of This Long And Continuous History Of The Advent Learning Use Demise And Debris Of Some Foreign Languages In India.Show More