[lg policy] Dialect-losing Nagaland needs language policy, says university By Our Correspondent / February 22, 2019 / Comments Off on Dialect-losing Nagaland needs language policy, says university Share Print Email Students sing a folk song during the International Mother Language Day programme at Nagaland University, on Tuesday in Kohima. Our Correspondent Kohima, Feb. 21 (EMN): Nagaland, a state rich in native dialects yet slowly losing its cultural stakes to coarse lingua franca such as “Nagamese,” is in need of a language policy. The state’s official language is English. But curious aspects of communication among the communities such as ‘Nagamese’ becoming the first language for some native Nagas means that these natives no longer speak any language, academicians and students at a Nagaland University programme were told. In conclusion, Ezung said that the ‘language scenario’ in the state “calls for good language planning, for a language policy can either wors

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
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