Over the last two
decades, scientists have come up with mathematical models for predicting the
life of languages. These predictions have invariably indicated that we are
moving rapidly towards the extinction of a large part of our linguistic
heritage. These predictions do not agree on the exact magnitude of the
impending disaster; but they all agree that about three-quarters of all natural
human languages are half in the grave.
There are, on the
other hand, advocates of linguistic globa
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a literary scholar and cultural activist, writes in three languages – Marathi, Gujarati and English. Till 1996 he taught English literature at the M S University of Baroda. He left his academic position to take up conservation of threatened languages in India. He is the Coordinator of Peoples Linguistic Survey of India and Director of Bhasha Research and Publication Centre.)
