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With the motive to develop awareness about Languages and the Linguistic heritage available in India and subcontinent, The Department of Linguistics at the Deccan College has decided to start a certificate course on introduction to languages of South Asia. The course be conducted from June 27 2016 to July 9 2016 between 11.30am to 1.30pm and session II between 2pm to 4pm.

Units covered in the course are languages of South Asia, major Language Families in South Asia- Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Munda etc, scripts of languages in South Asia, unclassified languages, language Isolates,shared features across language families, phonology- retroflex sounds etc., morphology- dative subjects, converbs, compound verbs, causative verbs, echo-compounds etc and syntax- Word order etc.

The college said in a statement that, South Asian languages share many characteristics such as grammatical structure and vocabulary, but they are also distinctly different. Most of the nations of South Asia have linguistic minorities. The major language families in South Asia are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic (Munda) and Tibeto-Burman. We are having several languages belonging to these language families and additionally we have some of the unclassified languages and language isolates as well.

We have a very rich linguistic heritage in India as well. Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu are some of the major languages spoken in India. English and Hindi are widely spoken in India. We have some of the language isolates, which are not related to any known language family, include Burushaski, Kusunda, Nahali etc. Languages such as Urdu, Bangla, Nepalese, Sinhala, Dhivehi, English etc. are spoken in nearby countries to India.