Language Mixing in Indian Linguistic Landscape

This paper studies the use of the written form of human language in public spaces for a widespread communication. The multilingual structure of a society makes this use of language linguistically more worthful and fascinating. Some languages appear more visible on a written display than others; generally a major language dominates, but a minor language often makes its effort for the presence in public sphere. Such studies are capable to depict the results of various sociolinguistic as well as psycholinguistic processes. The findings also show that the sociolinguistic phenomena of a multilingual society like, language switching, shifting, and mixing are visible clearly on the landscape too in different forms. Some of the interesting landscapes have been collected from the North Indian belt to illustrate the sociolinguistic as well as psycholinguistic outcomes.