Minority Matters: Issues in Minority Languages in India
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0.2. The paper demonstrates that the definitions of minority languages proposed in the current literature are inadequate to define minority languages in India. It further argues that minority languages can be defined on the basis of two major features: (a) their functional load; and (b) their functional transparency in the various domains of society. Minority languages are typically those which carry relatively less or marginal functional load and functional transparency. The concept of “functional load” in this context refers to the ability of languages to successfully function in one or more social domain. The load is considered to be higher or lower on the basis of the number of domains it covers. The higher the number of domains, the higher the load. For example, in India the English
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