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Langscape, the Centre for Linguistics at JNU conducted a survey that was dedicated to finding out how many languages the students at JNU know, their Mother Tongue and how the language scenario has changed over the years.
JNU’s CL (Center for Linguistics) conducted a survey which reveals that apart from Hindi, Bengali Bhojpuri and Malayalam are dominating languages that are the mother tongue of the students of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (JNU) .
The JNU Centre for Linguistics popularly known as Langscape conducted the survey for the first time in the year 2011. The second edition of the survey was conducted after 6 years in the year 2019. According to CL’s online portal, the survey is a way to understand and study & research about the multilingual scenario of the campus.
The website for the survey was the joint effort of Professor Ayesha Kidwai and some of the Ph.D. students of the varsity. The main purpose of the website is to collect the information and compile them into one place so that everyone from the linguistic community can study and research using the information.
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The second edition of Langscape was conducted among students more than 1700 students. For the latest survey, the entries were taken in the form of physical questionnaires and Google forms as well. As per the survey, there are more than 170 languages that the students of JNU consider as their mother tongue. Bengali, Malayalam and Bhojpuri, apart from Hindi, were the most common mother tongue languages that dominate the campus.
The survey also found that around 835 of the total students who took part in the survey could speak more than three languages. Out of the 835 students, 600p participants are trilinguals, 281participants are bilinguals, and the remaining 58 are monolinguals.
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One of the Ph.D. students of the Centre, Yangchen Roy said that the aim of the survey was to document the multilingual nature of the university and to find out how different languages are spoken in different domains (at home, at work)
Inputs from The Indian Express
