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Taatung Tatung and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages

Taatung Tatung and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages

Vaishali Shroff
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Languages make us human. The ability to communicate and be understood through songs, art,
words, inscriptions, or even gestures is essential because we, as a species, cannot live in isolation.
And each one of these languages has its own journey.

Early humans leaving messages on cave walls; three men on a raft stumbling upon a language they weren’t
looking for; a secret language that evolved to hide a people; the world’s only undeciphered language that is
4000 years old. The stories in this book take you from the northeastern-most tip of our country to the
forests in central India, from indigenous languages that are thousands of years old to those that
have developed recently.

Engrossing, entertaining, and packed with trivia, this book is for non-fiction lovers and students,
who have a keen interest in all things India!

Imprint: Penguin Audio

Published: Jun/2023

ISBN: 9789357081467

Run time : 227 mins

Taatung Tatung and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages

Vaishali Shroff

Languages make us human. The ability to communicate and be understood through songs, art,
words, inscriptions, or even gestures is essential because we, as a species, cannot live in isolation.
And each one of these languages has its own journey.

Early humans leaving messages on cave walls; three men on a raft stumbling upon a language they weren’t
looking for; a secret language that evolved to hide a people; the world’s only undeciphered language that is
4000 years old. The stories in this book take you from the northeastern-most tip of our country to the
forests in central India, from indigenous languages that are thousands of years old to those that
have developed recently.

Engrossing, entertaining, and packed with trivia, this book is for non-fiction lovers and students,
who have a keen interest in all things India!

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Audiobooks

Vaishali Shroff

An electronics and telecommunication engineer
turned award-winning author, Vaishali Shroff
loves writing about untold histories and unsung
people. Her rich non-fiction repertoire has
been widely recognized. Breaking Moulds made
it to the White Ravens list and was runner-up
at the Publishing Next Awards. Batata, Pao,
and All Things Portuguese
won the SCBWI
(USA) Scholarship, AutHer Award and received
an honourable mention at the BK Awards.
Critically acclaimed Taatung Tatung and Other
Amazing Stories of India’s Diverse Languages

was recognized by the National Translation Mission. She was also invited to speak at The
British Society for the History of Science. She
prefers children over adults and chocolate over
everything else.

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