Bøker av R. E. Asher

The ideal introduction to spoken and written Tamil. Focuses on the standard language of Tamil Nadu in South India, while providing a useful introduction to formal speech and the written language.

The first detailed description of Malayalam, providing an in-depth analysis of the linguistic richness of this language, spoken by over 35 million people on the Malabar coast of southern India.

This book, a reader for non-Tamil-speaking students of the language, consists of thirty-two representative extracts from post-1947 prose writings, with full grammatical and cultural notes, and a vocabulary. The selection illustrates the variety of styles used in modern Tamil writing.