{"id":9633,"date":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/12\/discovery-of-new-language-questioned\/"},"modified":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:00:00","slug":"discovery-of-new-language-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/12\/discovery-of-new-language-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of &#8220;New&#8221; Language Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/StoryPage\/Print\/612099.aspx\">www.hindustantimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, October 13, 2010: Barely a week after two US linguists claimed they uncovered a hidden language in Arunachal Pradesh, an academician based in the frontier state said his post-doctoral work in 2008 dealt extensively with the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But Gibji Nimachow would rather not stake any claim to have discovered Koro, which he says is a dialect and not a language as Americans K. David Harrison and Gregory DS Anderson announced. &#8220;To say one has uncovered a language known to many in our reasonably educated state is a bit too much,&#8221; Nimachow told Hindustan Times. &#8220;That is half as ridiculous as turning a dialect into a language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nimachow, assistant professor of geography at Rajiv Gandhi University near state capital Itanagar, belongs to the Aka tribe, which is divided into two sub-groups &#8212; Hrusso and Koro. Besides, he had researched various aspects of his tribe for his thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Arunachal Pradesh Director (Research) Tage Tada agreed. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think Koro, or for that matter any dialect or language of Arunachal Pradesh, needs to be discovered,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson is director of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages in Salem, US, and Harrison is a linguist at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. They said they uncovered Koro during a trip to Arunachal Pradesh in 2008. Their findings will be published in the journal Indian Linguistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.hindustantimes.com INDIA, October 13, 2010: Barely a week after two US linguists claimed they uncovered a hidden language in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}