{"id":10693,"date":"2021-05-25T04:49:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T04:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10693"},"modified":"2021-05-25T04:50:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T04:50:30","slug":"indian-english-is-a-prakrit-not-a-creole-says-linguist-peggy-mohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10693","title":{"rendered":"**  Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Migration has shaped the arc of Indian history in myriad ways, from the day the Vedic Aryans first alighted from their chariots to the arrival of Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala to the Persianised Turkic conquerors of the Middle Ages. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">F<em>or linguist Peggy Mohan, all this finds a strong echo in the evolution of the subcontinent\u2019s languages. In her new book,\u00a0<\/em>Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India Through Its Languages<em>, she delves into the often surprising sounds and structures of what we conventionally call Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages, and relates these to the deep pasts of their speakers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her new book speaks of how Indian languages evolved via generations of migratory patterns Migration has shaped the arc of Indian history in myriad ways, from the day the Vedic Aryans first alighted from their chariots to the arrival of Namboothiri Brahmins in Kerala to the Persianised Turkic conquerors of the Middle Ages. For linguist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=10693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">**  Indian English is a Prakrit, not a creole, says linguist Peggy Mohan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,18,10,15,20,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture-entertainment","category-education","category-history","category-nris","category-pios","category-records-india-national","category-women-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10696,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10693\/revisions\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}