Regional Identities and Language Diversity

When we refer to a person as a Tamil or an Oriya, this usually means that he or she speaks ______ or Oriya and lives in Tamil Nadu or Orissa.

We tend to associate each region with distinctive kinds of food, clothes, poetry, dance, music and ______.

The frontiers separating regions have evolved over time and are still ______.

The Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram was established in the ninth century in the south-western part of the ______, part of the present-day Kerala.

Regional cultures today are often the product of complex processes of intermixing of local traditions with ideas from other parts of the ______.

Some traditions appear specific to some regions, others seem to be similar across regions, and yet others derive from older practices in a particular area, but take a new form in other ______.

It is likely that ______ was spoken in the area of the Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram.

Find out how many states have been created in the last 10 years. Is each of these states a ______?

Let us begin by looking at an example of the connection between language and ______.