Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: a language "mega center"The Hindu Kush-Himalayan region (HKH), which extends for 3500 km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east, sustains over 150 million people and is home to great linguistic diversity and many of Asia's most endangered languages.Moving across the region, Afghanistan boasts 45 living languages, Bangladesh 38, Bhutan 24, China 202, India 387, Myanmar 107, Nepal 121, and Pakistan 69.The HKH is known as one of the 10 biodiversity "mega centers" of the world.But this stretch of mountainous Asia is also home to one-sixth of all human languages, so the area should be thought of as a linguistic "mega center" as well.
Author: Mark Turin
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $850
OpenAlex ID: W2176285855