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Tongue watcher
 Linguistic
geography is a relatively new discipline which combines elements of
geography, linguistics and anthropology. Prof. Hohammad Ishteyaq of Jamia
Millia Islamia in New Delhi is one of the few of experts on this subject
in India.
His researches have been published by Motilal Banarsidas Publishers in a
book called Language Shifts Among Scheduled Tribes in India, which argues
that language preferences in India’s several tribal communities are
changing fast.
One of his findings is that languages belonging to the Tibeto-Burman and
Anstric families are more stable than the languages of Dravidian and
Indo-Aryan origins spoken by tribals he studied.
Sometimes language preferences of tribals shift in favor of Hindi, or some
other powerful regional language because of the exposure of tribals to
powerful language groups in course of economic activities. At others times
such changes are merely the result of manipulation of census data for
political ends.
Prof. Mohammed Ishteyaq is deeply concerned over the gradual extinction of
some tribal languages. Some other languages are being diluted with outside
linguistic influences beyond recognition, he regrets. We have not
certainly heard the last from the learned professor.
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