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Publication details [#50646]

Jacquesson, François. 2009. East meets West: The Assam corridor. In d'Errico, Francesco and Jean-Marie Hombert, eds. Becoming Eloquent. Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures. John Benjamins. pp. 147–162.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language contact | language use | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Languages, North-East Indian

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper describes the ethnic and linguistic situation in North-East India, a corridor between highland Tibet and lowland Bangladesh, with currently more than 100 languages. The paper pictures the mosaic of languages and the logic of contacts in the region.