Translating a pandemic Illustration: Akila Weerasinghe
How do languages in Southasia speak to one another? This is the question driving Himal
’s new series Dialectical, which explores the region’s languages, their connections, their shared histories, and perhaps their futures. From phonology to pejoration, semiotics to semantics, dialects to diglossia, our resident experts on Southasian languages will provide social, political and historical insights on the subtle intricacies, and at times the absurdities, of the languages in the region. Like all things at Himal
, these articles will not stop at borders, natural or artificial, but will tell stories of peoples and cultures, wherever they lead.