Langscape 2011 saw massive participation by the JNU community, as funding enabled us to set up a pandal at Sabarmati Dhaba (a prime location on JNU campus). The generosity of the CIIL in providing assistance in video documentation not only spurred participation by students,  it also provided us  rich documentation of the interviews that were conducted. Participants were asked to fill out the survey questionnaire, which can be found here, and were interviewed on camera.

 

Langscape 2011 shows that 215 languages were spoken by the 2110 people who took part in the survey. Only 6 respondents reported being monolingual. 227 respondents were bilingual, 518 were trilingual and the overwhelming majority of 1359 reported speaking more than three languages. The full list of languages reported as being spoken can be found here. 

 

A sense of how the survey proceeded and the outstanding quality of the discussion about languages can be gotten from the interviews conducted. We present a small selection.