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Dr. Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi

Dr. Sonal Kulkarni-Joshi
Professor and Head
Dept. of Linguistics
Deccan College (Deemed to be University)

Language-dialect dichotomy.. a 'knotty' problem!?

Is Urdu a dialect of Hindi? Or is it a separate language? Why is Konkani in Goa an independent language and Konkani in the Konkan a dialect of Marathi? Why are the Tani group of speech varieties in Arunachal Pradesh treated as dialects when the ..