Open AccessLinguistic Review of "Alif Laila" by Ratan Nath Sarshar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
taus̱īq
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2790-928X
pISSN - 2790-9271
DOI - 10.37605/tauseeq.v2i2.24
Subject(s) - urdu , linguistics , pragmatics , variety (cybernetics) , syntax , arabic , hindi , history , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy
One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of tales compiled in Arabic inIslamic golden age. Ratan Nath Sarshar was an Urdu novelist, from British Indiawho did the Urdu translation of One Thousand and One Nights from Englishversion. This Urdu translation known as Alif Laila was influenced by Muslimcivilization and culture of the subcontinent. Sarshar has used variety of linguistic words taken from Arabic, Farsi and Hindi.Linguistic analysis is the scientific analysis of a language. This analysis of AlifLaila is at Semantics, Syntax and Pragmatics level which examines the word andsentence taken from other language and introduced them in Urdu translation. AtPragmatics level, social use of language has been observed.