"Many scholars have collaborated to produce this invaluable Language Atlas of South Asia. It draws upon Census reports of different countries – India 1931, 1961, 1991 and 21; Pakistan 1998; Nepal 21; Bangladesh 21; Sri Lanka 21; and Maldives 26. The computer technology has grown rapidly and the linguistic maps were created with the help of GIS technology. Several authors have contributed to this volume as follows: Hirofumi Teramura is a GIS specialist working for the Indus Project. He writes about how to make a linguistic atlas supported by GIS. Masayuki Onishi, a linguist has contributed on Indo-Aryan languages – Bengali spoken in West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh. Nozomi Kodama on Dravidian languages, especially Telugu. He writes on Dravidian languages and some Indo-Aryan languages widely spoken in southwestern and central India such as Marathi, Konkani, and Urdu. Yoshiharu Takahashi has contributed on Kinnauri – a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Himachal Pradesh (India); on Tibeto-Burman languages and Nepali, as well as the distribution of these languages in Nepal and northeastern India. Kazuya Inagaki has authored Section 1.3 on language codes. Toshiki Osada has researched Munda languages since 1978 and has contributed on Munda. This volume will be invaluable for scholars of South Asian Linguistics, Archaeology and Anthropology"