Dialect

Published on 9th March, 2019, in Economic Times. The unique thing about China is that it has many dialects spoken across the country but everyone is bound by a single script. Of course this is an overstatement from an academic point of view. But, in general, the entire country is bound by a single script. Likewise America is bound by a single language, English, and a single Latin script and this is evident in the currency notes of the two countries. One realises its significance when one looks at the Indian currency note which lists many languages and many scripts of the land. And herein ..