Dying languages . What happens when a language dies.?This was one of my areas of intense research interest when once up on a time I was doing research in sociolinguistics of North East India and specifically dong ethnography of language use in Mizoram .Today while listening to an excellent presentation by Prof Anvita Abbi who did pioneering research on languages of Andaman , it once again evoked nostalgia about an academic phase for around 7 years that ignited a passion to understand the depth and breadth of how language and memories shape human mind, cognition , communication and how meanings , words and the way we communicate are intrinsically linked human habitat and environment and how all these make a web of collective perception called words and worlds within us and beyond us. Worth listening .
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