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India as a Linguistic Area
Professor Murray Emeneau was the first to suggest that India was a Sprachbund. In his classic paper, 'India as a Linguistic Area', published in 1956 he explored the data and specified the tools to establish that language and culture had fused for centuries on the Indian soil to produce an integrated mosaic of structural convergence of four distinct language families viz.
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