8. India - Linguistic diversity and linguistic area hypothesis India has numerous languages & four major language families. Plus, many unclassified lgs. Structuralists stressed on our linguistic diversity. S.K.Chatterji had differed all along. But Emeneau (1958) was the first to argue convincingly that thousands of years of living together pressurized our languages to be similar. Colin Masica (1986) provided new evidences. Many new points emerged then on in studies by Indian scholars like Subbarao/Krishnamurti/Abbi.
