A Santal Dictionary

A Santal Dictionary
Author: P. O. Bodding
Publisher: South Asia Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788121204231

Santali, or the language of the Santhals, is spoken by the sons of the soil in a large territory spread over Bihar, West Bengal, Orissa and North-Eastern India. Apart from Santhals several other tribes also use Santali as their dialect. Though several dictionaries on the Santali language have been compiled by earlier Christian missionaries to spread the message of Bible in the local idiom, Bodding s remains the most exhaustive, most elaborate and most acceptable of all the lexicons. The entries carry not only the meaning and usage but also ethnological description. The reason is to help all readers who use the dictionary for clearer understanding of what each word stands for or refers to. With parantheses at the end of each article some etymological matter has been added. Foreign words which have been assimilated into Santali are included. In all, the dictionary is the only complete and authoritative reference work for those who want to use Santali either as mother tongue or neighbouring or foreign language.

Performing Identities

Performing Identities
Author: GeoffreyV. Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351554611

Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area

Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004439153

This volume provides a first of its kind account of expressives in the region from a grammatical, historical, and literary perspective. It provides case studies from the four major language families of South Asia.

A Mundari-English Dictionary

A Mundari-English Dictionary
Author: Manindra Bhusan Bhaduri
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9788120609105

Dictionary of Languages

Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2015-10-28
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1408102145

Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.