Father tongue, motherland: the birth of languages in South Asia (Record no. 62316)
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| fixed length control field | 02362 a2200229 4500 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780670099740 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 409.5 MOH |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mohan, Peggy |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Father tongue, motherland: the birth of languages in South Asia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Gurugram: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Allen Lane, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2025. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 361p.: |
| Other physical details | ill.; maps; hbk.: |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Bibliographical References, Index and Notes |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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?<br/><br/>In Father Tongue, Motherland, Peggy Mohan looks at exactly how the mixed languages in South Asia came to life. Like a flame moving from wick to wick in early encounters between male settlers and locals skilled at learning languages, the language would start to ‘go native’ as it spread. This produced ‘father tongues’, with words taken from the migrant men’s language, but grammars that preserved the earlier languages of the ‘motherland’.<br/><br/>Looking first at Dakkhini, spoken in the Deccan where north meets south, Mohan goes on to build an X-ray image of a vanished language of the Indus Valley Civilization from the ‘ancient bones’ visible in the modern languages of the area. In the east, she explores another migration of men 4000 years ago that left its mark on language beyond the Ganga-Yamuna confluence. How did the Dravidian people and their languages end up in south India? And what about Nepal, where men coming into the Kathmandu Valley 500 years ago created a hybrid eerily similar to what we find in the rest of the subcontinent?<br/><br/>One image running through this book is of something that remains even when the living form of language fades. Tucked away in how we think and speak now are echoes of our history, and the story of ancestors who lived hundreds and thousands of years ago.<br/><br/>https://www.penguin.co.in/book/father-tongue-motherland/ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Language --Geographic treatment |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Languages Mix |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Languages- Migrant Men |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Languages- Motherland |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Dakkhini-- Dravidian |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award (2023) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Item type | Books |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last borrowed | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | General | IIT Gandhinagar | IIT Gandhinagar | 12/03/2025 | Kushal Books | 699.00 | 1 | 409.5 MOH | 035305 | 12/06/2025 | 16/05/2025 | 1 | 699.00 | Books |
