Editorial - March 2004

  

     .   ,   ,     .      .  ,       ;   .   (http://www.arunbhatiaelect.org)  .

    :       .   ,     .  ,  .     . :      ,   .  ( )      .  , "We can make a difference"   ; ,   .

  "Times Of India"      , "Debugging the Political Process"  . ,   ,  : " ,        ,     " .

 ,  4   . ,    ,        .    2-5     ,       .    .  (  )   .        .    -        ,             .  ,  .

"Half of all languages face extinction this century",   NewScientist.com    (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994685).   :
... Lightfoot stresses that documenting existing languages is vitally important. "We want to understand as much as we can about human language," he says. "But to keep them alive you need a viable community and that's not something that's really controllable."

         . ,         ;   ; "Some Tamils speak as if there is a shortage of words in Tamil. They throw in a main English word and add, ''. So I can often understand what they are saying even though I dont speak Tamil".

     , " "        .

      .   

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