Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
- The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editor’s Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ancient World
- Part II The Pre-Modern World
- Part III The Modern World: Continuing Traditions
- 15 China from c. 1700
- 16 Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese from c. 1800
- 17 Turkish and Persian from c. 1700
- 18 South Asia from c. 1750
- 19 Arabic from c. 1800
- 20 Modern Hebrew
- 21 The Slavic and Baltic Languages
- 22 The Germanic Languages Other than English from c. 1700
- 23 Standard Varieties of English from c. 1700
- 24 Regional Varieties of English
- 25 The Romance Languages from c. 1700
- Part IV The Modern World: Missionary and Subsequent Traditions
- Appendix 1 The Language Varieties
- Appendix 2 The Lexicographers
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
18 - South Asia from c. 1750
from Part III - The Modern World: Continuing Traditions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2019
- The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
- The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editor’s Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The Ancient World
- Part II The Pre-Modern World
- Part III The Modern World: Continuing Traditions
- 15 China from c. 1700
- 16 Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese from c. 1800
- 17 Turkish and Persian from c. 1700
- 18 South Asia from c. 1750
- 19 Arabic from c. 1800
- 20 Modern Hebrew
- 21 The Slavic and Baltic Languages
- 22 The Germanic Languages Other than English from c. 1700
- 23 Standard Varieties of English from c. 1700
- 24 Regional Varieties of English
- 25 The Romance Languages from c. 1700
- Part IV The Modern World: Missionary and Subsequent Traditions
- Appendix 1 The Language Varieties
- Appendix 2 The Lexicographers
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Index
Summary
South Asia, a region that has been defined variously to include all or parts of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and occasionally Myanmar and the Tibet Autonomous Region, is home to about a quarter of the world’s population and is the scene of much of its linguistic diversity. Each of these nations has adopted a different set of official languages. Some have enshrined multilingualism at the national or provincial levels, while others have chosen a single language to serve as an official national language. Sri Lanka, for example, amended its constitution in 1987 to name both Sinhalese and Tamil as official and national languages, with English retained as a ‘link language’, and the 8th Schedule to the Indian Constitution currently designates twenty-two official languages, with an official ‘three-language formula’ implemented in 1968 by India’s Ministry of Education.
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- The Cambridge World History of Lexicography , pp. 388 - 413Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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