"In some Indian languages, the word for 'language' is bhasha, which evokes a language with a script, literature, and a certain sophistication... Boli, however, refers to language in its spoken form, hinting at the hybridity and colloquial nature of the many languages that exist in India."
"Ganesh Devy discovered that the 1971 census listed only a hundred and eight mother tongues and intrigued by the disappearance of over fifteen hundred other languages, he began to wonder about their worth and the responsibilities of literature towards these languages."
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