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@TianChengWen
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65subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001136843966 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @TianChengWen |
| Created | Between 1 June 2017 and 31 October 2020— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 27 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 27 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/TianChengWen |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
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| 27 Aug 2026, 16:57 | 65 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 01:45 | 66 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 17:58 | 66 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 31 December 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 21 May 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
If you work long hours for low wages, there's not really any time to go out and actively learn a very different language unless you have some assistance. European countries do this where migrants are taught local languages. Why are poorer Indians expected to do it themselves? — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) May 21, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1660158524582928386
To elaborate : with working class migrants from poorer states becoming a part of the labor force in South India, there are concerns about them not picking up the local language. But it's strange that this is expected to happen without any sort of external guidance or instruction. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) May 21, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1660157858120605697
This is an excellent initiative, especially given the puzzling neglect of formal second language education for migrants in India. It can't be expected that people will learn local languages completely organically without guidance or instruction. This training is a great decision. https://t.co/NU34w5NBaV — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) May 21, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/166014…
Recently learned that many Anglo Indians use a different past tense form of "clean" in their #IndianEnglish dialect — "cleant" (rhyming with "bent"), instead of the usual "cleaned". Have you heard this verb form used by Anglo Indians before? — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Apr 29, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1652252196552179713
RT @SandalBurn: Today, on Jotirao Phule's birth anniversary, I'm sharing an essay I'd written for @thecaravanindia last Oct. Phule's uncompromising politics of equality was spread through the medium of print, adding new dimensions to Marathi written culture. https://t.co/YGp4kj4pHb — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Apr 11, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1645823109625417731
One of the more conspicuous linguistic differences as you enter the #Kodava zone is that words beginning with p- feature quite prominently in Kodava, as opposed to Kannada where Old Kannada p- shifted to h-. Compare Kodava pālɯ, pāṭɯ Kannada hālu, hāḍu "milk, song". — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Apr 9, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1645045672830455808
#Kodava speaking Kodagu district (Coorg) in Karnataka is part of the larger ecological zone of Wayanad - Nilgiris - Kodagu. Although Kodava speakers use Kannada as their primary written language, the langs of this area show stronger linguistic similarities with Tamil & Malayalam. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Apr 9, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1644980917092626435
The Telugu word for "water", nīḷḷu (నీళ్ళు) is interesting (and a little unusual) in that it's a plural word, requiring verbs that refer to the noun to be in their plural form. For ex, nīḷḷu unnāyi ("there is water"), unnāyi (plural form) instead of undi (singular form). — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Mar 18, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1636940137195266050
Interestingly, languages surrounding Meitei, spoken in the hills around the Imphal valley including Tangkhul and Thadou, lack these voiced sounds b d g. They weren't influenced culturally or linguistically by Bengali/Sanskrit like Meitei was, and didn't develop these new sounds. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Mar 11, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1634552271194443784
@oligoglot /b d g/ appear word initially only in loanwords (mostly Bengali, Hindi, Sanskrit, English), but contrast with /p t k/ in native words and phrases between vowels. They don't appear at the end of syllables otherwise. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Feb 28, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1630495685857660929
This is also the process behind the Meitei (Manipuri) name Pāngal, the name of the local Meitei Muslim community. Pāngal is a reference to Bengal, the most immediate source of Islam and Muslims locally. The name must have come about before the p/b distinction developed in Meitei. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Feb 27, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1630092358690963456
Older Manipuri court literature, written after the conversion of the kingdom's ruling elite to the Vaiṣṇava faith, show Indo Aryan loanwords, including Sanskrit names, adapted to these patterns of native Meitei pronunciation. Rāvan, Rādhā for ex, became Lavon, Latha. — Indian Linguistics | Bhāṣāśāstra (@TianChengWen) Feb 24, 2023 https://twitter.com/TianChengWen/status/1629142489788731393
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @TianChengWen. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
@TianChengWen named 7 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
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“Indian Languages” (@TianChengWen), 65 subscribers as measured 27 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/TianChengWen.
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