India has been embracing and enlivening different cultures and vernacular languages and is a linguistically diverse country. According to the latest census data, India has 121 languages spoken by more ...

BETWEEN the language of literature and the language of common life there must be, whether in a living tongue or a dead one, differences growing out of the nature of literature. The very making of ...

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Translating notes into ‘deep’ or ‘high’ versions of languages isn’t very useful for young students who prefer vernacular, colloquial ways of speaking. Shutterstock South African universities are ...

During the week-long celebrations of 'Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav', Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan underscored the importance of the mother tongue in children's education. During the event, he ...

Vernacular radio stations broadcast in local languages and have become increasingly critical in Africa for passing essential information to people about the fight against COVID-19. Such stations have ...

NEW DELHI: Shamsher Singh, a seasoned face in Hindi television journalism, has been appointed managing editor for the Hindi and vernacular language publications of the Times Group, marking another ...