Get a taste of South Asian linguistics from the perspective of retroflexes, a cross-linguistically rare type of sound that for some reason crops up all around the Indian subcontinent! Follow the retroflexes through the history of the most prominent language family in South Asia, Indo-Aryan, exploring its interactions with surrounding languages over time.
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