Incha Aanda Yencha?

Deccan herald reports that five languages in Karnataka, including Tulu and Kodava, may vanish due to fast dwindling of number of its users, a Unesco study has warned.

Being a Tulu speaking person, this news is really very saddening. Though the report does say that it might take another 80 to 90 years for the language to ease out from the Indian languages, which is definitely after my lifetime, news of death of a language is painful for its users.

The decline of a language, like its birth, is not so easy and..... more