There are plenty of people learning Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language, and those numbers are growing. But those students typically learn the language to read old books, and it turns out trying to use it as a spoken language is a challenge.
India’s new leader favors the Hindi language, which is a problem for the country’s 50 million Urdu speakers
In Tuesday’s elections, in New York City, Bengali voters were supposed to get ballots in their old language. That didn’t happen, and advocates for immigrants say that’s not fair.
Linguists hope to save endangered languages in India
UNESCO lists nearly 200 of India’s 900 languages as endangered. Others are dying fast as the county continues its rapid development. A team of researchers are working to catalog what’s left of them before they disappear completely.
Pakistani scholars concerned that Urdu script being lost to technology
In SMS-happy Pakistani, many young people are writing their text messages in using the Latin alphabet, rather than the traditional Urdu script. That has some concerned that the classical script will disappear.
Pakistan set to require telecom companies to block messages from a bizarre word list
In Pakistan, supposedly in an effort to combat the sending of spam text messages, the country has introduced a list of 1,500 words that will trigger a text message to be blocked.