This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Earlier this year, Zoho's Sridhar Vembu urged Tamils to learn Hindi for business, sparking outrage in the south. Months later ...

The controversy in Maharashtra over the imposition of Hindi has once again brought the language to the centre of a national debate. In April, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Maharashtra government ...

Arattai—meaning 'banter' in Tamil—was promoted as a domestic alternative to WhatsApp. From a base of 3,000 users, the app ...

Acclaimed Hindi author Virendra Yadav said if the words used by the people are being added to the language, it is important for the language to flourish. Many words generally used in a Hindi ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...

Bengaluru language row: Flight information display board shows two languages - Kannada and English. (Image: X/@Ellarakannada) A social media post calling for an end to “Hindi Imposition” has sparked a ...

When India’s Constituent Assembly debated the language question, they grappled with a challenge that would define our republic’s character: how to unite a multilingual nation with the idea of equality ...

Netflix now supports Hindi, the third most spoken language in the world after English and Mandarin Chinese. And by supporting the language, we mean the streaming service is now offering the full Hindi ...

A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world recognizes the power and might of the Hindi language.” Credit: ...

Many words generally used in a Hindi conversation have been picked up from other languages and blended over time. That is the view of several noted Hindi writers who Hindustan Times spoke to on the ...