A Hindi-English jumble, spoken by 350 million
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Why 'Hinglish' is becoming hip in India, and may soon claim more native speakers worldwide than English.
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Since an Anglophone rebel movement swept into the country a decade ago, English has quickly gained currency as the language of education and opportunity.
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A combination of poorer schools and a rise in local dialects has hurt English proficiency in the Phillipines.
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The second-largest satellite entertainment provider adds 350,000 subscribers.
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The number of Indian subscribers for landline and mobile phone services is soaring, putting the country on track to have 250 million users by 2007.
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Reader Pankaj Kumar sends us a photograph.
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Visitors to the Route 66 festival on Saturday might have heard some English accents in the crowd.
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In India, there are nearly 300 million people who can't read and another 400 million with very basic knowledge of the alphabet. That is the impetus behind The Literacy Project, an initiative that integrates Google's services with information on literacy.
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Researchers are hoping to help the federal government sort through data in various languages by developing software that can quickly cull and analyze text and speech.
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BANGALORE (India): Anil Kumble achieved the 400-wicket landmark yesterday even as world champions Australia piled up 316-5 on a scintillating opening day of the first cricket Test here.
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Indian literature, already known around the world for such English-language authors as Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry, is reaching out to a broader audience for works in dozens of Indian languages at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
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It was a ginormous year for the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster. Along with embracing the adjective that combines "gigantic" and "enormous," the dictionary publishers also got into Bollywood, sudoku and speed dating.
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Reader Himanshu Bhutani sends us a picture.
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Reader Satyendra Jha shares his memories.
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A campaign to encourage more people to study languages at university is being launched in England.
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Secondo testimoni erano in sei e parlavano in lingua hindi
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Nearly one in five people living in the United States speaks a language at home other than English, according to new Census data that illustrate the wide-ranging effects of immigration.