Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia by Coupe, Alexander R.

“…This chapter describes grammaticalization patterns in a broad selection of languages of South Asia, a multilingual region of the world known to constitute a linguistic area in which unrelated languages demonstrate evidence of linguistic convergence. …”
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South Asian perspectives on relative-correlative constructions by Coupe, Alexander Robertson

“…The bi-clausal relative-correlative structure is believed to be native to Indo-Aryan languages and has been replicated by Austroasiatic, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia through contact and convergence, despite the non-Indic languages of the region already having a participial relativization strategy at their disposal. …”
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Innovations in Urdu Sentiment Analysis Using Machine and Deep Learning Techniques for Two-Class Classification of Symmetric Datasets by Khalid Bin Muhammad, S. M. Aqil Burney

“…The most spoken language in South Asia is Urdu. However, less work has been carried out on Urdu, as Roman Urdu is also used in social media (Urdu written in English alphabets); therefore, it is easy to use it in English language processing software. …”
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Multi-label emotion classification of Urdu tweets by Noman Ashraf, Lal Khan, Sabur Butt, Hsien-Tsung Chang, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh

“…Urdu is a widely used language in South Asia and worldwide. While there are similar datasets available in English, we created the first multi-label emotion dataset consisting of 6,043 tweets and six basic emotions in the Urdu Nastalíq script. …”
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End to End Urdu Abstractive Text Summarization With Dataset and Improvement in Evaluation Metric by Hassan Raza, Waseem Shahzad

“…Urdu, being a common language in South Asia, has not received significant attention in terms of language processing compared to more advanced languages. …”
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Cultural Maintenance in the Face of Language Shift- Young Sindhi Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan by Muhammad Hassan Abbasi

“… The Sindhi language, a descendent of a pre-Vedic Prakit language is the most widely spoken language in South-Asia. Sindhi speech community comprises of both Muslims, and Hindus which have distinct cultural and religious practices, yet they are socially connected because of the geographical link with their land. …”
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