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Linguist List - Dissertation Abstracts |
 | | Pondichery which remained under French rule until its transfer in 1962 to the Indian Government is the only existing French speaking community in India and the only region where French is an official language alongside Tamil. |
| | Events in the course of history, immigration and contact with neighbouring states have given rise to a complex multilingual society wherein several Indo-European and Dravidian languages are present alongside French. |
| | The first five chapters prepare the introductory frame by presenting the fieldwork, methodology and database, by describing the linguistic set-up of India in general and of Pondichery in specific, and by comparing relevant typological features of the two main languages in contact, viz. |
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