Publications

Publication details [#49418]

Prabhakaran, Varijakshi. 1998. Hlonipha in Dravidian Languages and Society? Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 29 (1) : 117–131.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | language and culture | language and society | value

Language as a subject

Indian | Xhosa | Zulu

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Written from an Indian perspective, this article examines whether hlonipha is only a custom of the Zulu and Xhosa African societies, or whether it is also present in the Indian languages and culture.