This Department was established in the year 1980. It offers Post Graduate courses in Sanskrit, Linguistics, English, Hindi, and Urdu. It also conducts M.Phil. in Comparative Linguistics. Under these courses, it imparts teaching and training in various fields viz. Literature, Literary Criticism, Linguistic Components, Poetics & Dramaturgy, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics etc. The Department plans to establish a Language Lab through which students can avail practical training in Phonetics & Phonology.