With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them Every year, the world loses some of its 7,000 languages. Parents stop speaking them ...

I moved to Deoghar, Jharkhand from rural Begusarai in Bihar at the age of four. The mother tongue of most of the girls in my new school in Deoghar was Hindi. There was an assumed superiority in not ...

The online presence of a language is vital for promoting its usage in everyday life. This is something well understood by speakers of Angika, a language spoken in the Indian states of Bihar and ...

The struggle for government recognition of Angika language spoken in eastern districts of Bihar and related demands has now taken a crucial turn, as its supporters have taken to 'aamaran anshan ...

A delegation of the Anga Utthan Andolan Samiti (AUAS) on Saturday submitted a memorandum at Raj Bhawan, reiterating its demand that governor Devanand Konwar take steps as he deemed proper for ...

Editor's note: From April 12–18, 2022, Amrit Sufi will be hosting the @AsiaLangsOnline rotating Twitter account, which explores how technology can be used to revitalize Asian languages. Read more ...

The Kaithi script was used for writing legal, administrative and private records, and was used for a variety of Indo-Aryan languages such as Angika, Bajjika, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili and ...

TM Bhagalpur University (TMBU) have finally decided to discontinue the new session for postgraduate course in Angika, a regional dialect spoken by people in nearly two dozen districts of Bihar and ...

People belonging to Bihar have often been asked outside the state: “Do you speak Bihari?”, a question they are likely to find bizarre. For contrary to popular perception, there is no language such as ...