With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fas

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a

An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international

The South Asian languages, mainly Indo-Aryan and Dravidian, have become a focus of interest in the formal study of language as a natural consequence of the rese

Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory.