Lecturer (Indic language/s), Leiden University (Netherlands), KHS (Agra), JNU (Delhi), Hindi, Urdu, Linguistics, Lit, भाषा, भाषाविज्ञान, साहित्य
RT @Himalistan
"The idea of speaking ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ languages has led to a situation where almost 96 percent of contact languages of the world today are either endangered or have become dormant."
From August 2021: @avtansa on contact languages.
https://www.himalmag.com/shaking-the-melting-pot-dialectical-2021/
RT @Himalistan
"There are around 16 unique Braille codes from a total of 20 codes used for Southasian languages."
From March 2022: @avtansa on braille in Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/seeing-with-fingertips-braille-southasia-dialectical-2022/
RT @Himalistan
"As the pandemic unfolded in this linguistically diverse region, many languages spoken here had to adapt to the sudden influx of scientific terminology."
From April 2021: @avtansa on the impact of COVID-19 terminology on Southasian languages.
https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-southasia-in-languages-2021/
RT @nirupamakotru
@avtansa सचमुच एक रुलाने वाली कहानी l
पढ़कर "उसने कहा था" कहानी याद आ गयीl
मैंने उस कहानी और फिल्म पर एक लेख लिखा था l अन्ग्रेज़ी में है, पसंद आये तो औरों से साझा कीजियेगा l मेरी पसंदीदा कहानी है ❤
https://scroll.in/reel/1029488/book-versus-movie-the-poignancy-and-power-of-usne-kaha-tha-dont-make-it-to-the-screen
RT @Himalistan
"Contact languages are always in a state of flux. While the old ones are threatened and on the verge of extinction, new ones are born."
From August 2021: @avtansa on the role of contact languages in multilingual milieux.
https://www.himalmag.com/shaking-the-melting-pot-dialectical-2021/
RT @Himalistan
"Mixed languages are languages with split-ancestry which arose due to expressive needs in a multilingual community, and whose linguistic ancestry is difficult to define."
From July 2021: @avtansa on pidgins, creoles and mixed languages of Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/pidgins-creoles-mixed-languages-southasia-dialectical-2021/
RT @KShrikaanth
On #RepublicDay, Proud & thrilled to share my sanketi translation of PadmaBhushan SrI SL Bhyrappa’s Vamsha Vriksha, published by Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati
ಪದ್ಮಭೂಷಣ ಭೈರಪ್ಪನವರ ವಂಶ ವೃಕ್ಷದ ನನ್ನ ಸಂಕೇತಿ ಅನುವಾದವನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆಯಾಗುತಿದೆ
Pl RT & share widely🙏
RT @KShrikaanth
kannaDa
Blouse- ರವಿಕೆ, ಕುಪ್ಪಸ, ಕಂಚುಕ/ಕಂಚುಕಿ, ಬಾಚಿ ravike, kuppasa, kan̄cuka/kan̄cuki, bāci
Petticoat- ಒಳಲಂಗ, ಒಳಪಾವಡೆ oḷalaṅga, oḷapāvaḍe
sankēti
Blouse- ಕುಪ್ಫಾಯು, ರವಿಕ, ಕಂಚುಕಿ kupphāyu, ravika, kan̄cuki
Petticoat- ಉಳ್ಲಂಗು uḷlaṅgu
In both, Bra is ಬಾಡಿ bāḍi (<bodice) https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1617206502783160322
RT @pyrrhonius
@Bhaktirassagar @avtansa ji covered this topic a while back -
https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1420765990342729728?s=20&t=Nzd5_cmbbkQhRbUx2bHHWw
RT @Himalistan
"Sign languages are fully developed, rule-governed linguistic systems that have their own grammars which are not dependent on spoken languages."
From November 2021: @avtansa on national and endangered sign languages of Southasia.
https://www.himalmag.com/sign-languages-matter-dialectical-2021/
RT @sridatta_a
@avtansa Never knew the source of jamkhānā in kannada, thanks for this thread
RT @dekkani
Also used in #Dakhani is Shatranji for Dhurrie, as the Pakistani Urdu scholar & poet Sahar Ansari says here.
Also common to Dakhani are: Mauz for Kela (banana), Munjal for Tadgola (Ice Apple), Jaam for Amrud (Guava) & Tanabbi for Khidki (window). https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1609840352047005700
RT @tawairkh
درست فرمایا آپ نے ابھیشیک بھائی- ہمارا بھی کچھ ایسا ہی تجربہ ہے۔
@avtansa https://twitter.com/avtansa/status/1609174154904846337
RT @Himalistan
"Southasian languages do not limit themselves with this binary division and show a unique diversity in categorising the world..."
From November 2022: @avtansa looks at gender in relation to Southasian languages.
https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-beyond-the-binary-language-gender-2022/
RT @BarbaraSchwepck
An instructor who showed a painting of the Prophet Muhammad was publicly impugned & fired by Hamline University, Minnesota. In @newlinesmag, Islamic art professor Christiane Gruber provides details about the incident & how it undermines academic freedom https://newlinesmag.com/argument/academic-is-fired-over-a-medieval-painting-of-the-prophet-muhammad/
RT @Himalistan
"Southasian languages do not limit themselves with this binary division and show a unique diversity in categorising the world according to independent cultural practices."
From November 2022: @avtansa on gender in Southasian languages:
https://www.himalmag.com/dialectical-beyond-the-binary-language-gender-2022/
RT @darshitpp
@avtansa I was very confused between dabo and jamno even though I'm a Gujarati. The explanation of jamno being connected to eat has solved it for me! Thanks!