Dr Stephen Morey (CRLD, La Trobe University) on the languages of the Tangsa people of northern India and the problems of language standardisation in linguistically diverse communities. 

Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stephen Morey (CRLD, La Trobe University) on the languages of the Tangsa people of northern India and the problems of language standardisation in linguistically diverse communities. Copyright 2013 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?

Tweets, texts, blogs and chat sites. New communication platforms are affecting our relationship with the written word, both in dominant world languages and endangered and minority languages. Is language standardisation necessary to establish literacy, or do we endanger languages by reducing them to writing? 

Join Australian and international authors, anthropologists and linguists to explore the impact of globalisation on languages and on the future of written, spoken and signed communication. 

Recorded at Written, Spoken, Signed: Linguistic Diversity in a Globalised World conference, presented by the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University.

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Tweets, texts, blogs and chat sites. New communication platforms are affecting our relationship with the written word, both in dominant world languages and endangered and minority languages. Is language standardisation necessary to establish literacy, or do we endanger languages by reducing them to writing? Join Australian and international authors, anthropologists and linguists to explore the impact of globalisation on languages and on the future of written, spoken and signed communication. Recorded at Written, Spoken, Signed: Linguistic Diversity in a Globalised World conference, presented by the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University.

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Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?

Can a ‘Common Language’ Work for the Tangsa?