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Gujarat, Diu-Daman ane Dadra Nagar Havelini Bhasha, Volume 9, Part 3 - Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan (Gujarati) (BBLS)

by G. N. Devy (Chief Editor) and Kanji Patel (Ed.)
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788125061120
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 960
  • Original Price: INR 5690.0
  • Language: Gujarati
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1720 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

The Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India is a right based movement for carrying out a nation-wide survey of Indian languages especially the languages of fragile communities such as nomadic, coastal, island, hill and forest communities.

There are 88 volumes in the series of People’s Linguistic Survey of India published by us. This book is Part 3 of  Volume 9 (Gujarat, Diu- Daman ane Dadra Nagar Havelini Bhasha  [Gujarati]) of The People's Linguistic Survey of India Series (PLSI) undertaken and executed by Bhasha Research and Publication Center, Baroda.  

The present book contains the information on 47 languages and linguistic variety of the Gujarat State of India. The survey of languages included in this volume are as follows:

a] Scheduled languages : Gujarati, Urdu and Sindhi. The regional varieties of Gujarati such as Charotari, Pattani, Vagheri, Halari, Surati, Saurashtri/Sorathi, Jataki, Mutawaki and Kutchhi have also been included in this volume. Similarly regional varieties of Sindhi have also been covered in this survey.
b] Tribal languages : Ambudi, Airani, Kathali Vasavi, Kathodi, Kunkana, Kotal, Kotwali, Garasiya, Gamit, Gorpa, Charani, Chaudhari,  Dangi, Rathwi, Siddi, Dungara Bhili, Dungari Bhili, Dhodia, Tadavi, Talavia-Rathod, Dehwali, Panchamahali Bhili, Mavachi, Varali, Rathwi and Siddi.
c] Denotified, Nomadic Tribes [DNT] languages : Chamathi, Dafer, Thori, Nayaki, Bahurupi, Bhantu, Madari, Mir-Mirasi, Vanjhari, Vadi, Sandhi, 
d] Coastal languages : Kolagha, Kodi,  Kharwa, Mangeli, Mer.

The volume is supplemented with a]11 maps depicting linguistic variety in the State; b] elaborate bibliography given at the end of each chapter. c] an elaborate word- index at the end of the volume

Professor  Ganesh  Devy taught English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; a renowned literary critic and activist; founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat; and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Folk Traditions. He received Sahitya  Akademi award for his book After Amnesia in 1994. He is an active participant in the functioning of Bhasha Academy. He was awarded the Padmashri in 2014. He is the moving spirit behind PLSI series.

Professor Kanji Patel, the volume editor, is an English language teacher and a famous Gujarati writer. He is a professor of English at the language department in Lunavada College in Lunavada of Panchmahala and has become an important figure who speaks for the rights of the denotified and nomadic tribes of Gujarat. He is one of the key members of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAG) appointed by the Central government to ask for suggestions of development of such tribes.

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