To our esteemed readers, we have here come out with another interesting set of articles highlighting the many facets of language and linguistic structure, as usual. The article by Naved Alam, explores the idea of teaching English language through the varied socio-cultural nuances of different Indian language communities by including readings of translations of the literary texts drawn from various Indian languages, including the Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages besides a few lesser-known languages too. Digital Archiving of traditional oral traditions as available in indigenous languages have emerged as a significant step in language revitalization projects.

The article by Monali Longmailai and Rajkumari Monimala Sinha addresses this issue in the context of preserving oral narratives from different genres in Dimasa on the Online portal of Mukurtu and developing selected narratives from these as textual curricula for the teaching of Dimasa language. In another paper on Garha Bhojpuri, the Avid Ali draws our attention to certain influences that Magahi and Standard Bhojpuri have on the auxiliaries in Garha Bhojpuri due to the contact situation they are situated in.

There is also a paper included dealing with the phonology of Khiamniungan, an undocumented language, wherein it is characterized as a tonal language with 20 consonants, 8 monophthongs and 9 diphthongs. Further tonal contrasts prevalent in the language are also analyzed in this paper by the authors – Keen Thaam and Mimi Kevichüsa-Ezung. The topics of classifiers in Kokborak written by L. Pratima Devi calls attention to another interesting fact of this Tibeto Burman language where the structure of nouns with numeral modifiers are shown to require classifiers representing different semantic classes whose formation is pointed out to be based upon a reduplicated form from a representative word of the class.

The article by Rajiv Ranjan Mahto and Shah Mohammad Fayez brings to light the erosion of linguistic capabilities of people speaking minority languages in Jharkhand region which once prided itself on being a multilingual area. The erosion has set in largely due to the imposition of state language as the medium of instruction in schools and the influences of the dominant languages of the neightbouring states.

We have also included a Field report by Bharat Bhushan on his trip along with his Principal investigator Dr. Pramod Kumar to Korba district in Chhattisgarh to collect data on Korwa language, which is an indigenous Austroasiatic language. Bharat Bhushan provides a richly detailed description of the procedures they adopted to collect the sociocultural and linguistic materials for documenting and describing Korwa language and also to establish personal rapport with the native informants of the language.

In our book review section, a review by Prof. Uma Bhat on the ‘Trilingual Raji -Hindi-English Dictionary’ by Prof. Kavita Rastogi is included. It is a unique attempt which includes a pictorial illustration to the words listed apart from being a multilingual dictionary (cf. Anvita Abbi’s foreword to the Dictionary). Some of the influences that the lexicon of Raji bears due to influences of the dominant language of its regions Kumauni on it are also harped upon in the review. In all the volume contains six papers, one field report and a review.Thus, we have a bouquet of papers bringing out the different aspects of language and society to our readers in this issue.