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04/10/24 11:02 AM IST

Marathi among 5 languages accorded ‘classical language’ status

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  • The Union Cabinet  approved a decade-old proposal to accord classical language status to Marathi.
  • The government also named Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali as classical languages.
Classical Language
  • India has had six classical languages till now. Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Sanskrit, and Odia.
  • Tamil was the first language to be given classical status in 2004 followed by Sanskrit in 2005. 
  • The Linguistics Expert Committee comprises of representatives of the Union Ministries of Home, Culture, and four or five linguistic experts at any given time.
  • It is chaired by the President of the Sahitya Akademi.
  • Once a language is notified as a classical language, the Education Ministry provides certain benefits to promote it which includes two major annual international awards for scholars of eminence in the said languages, a Centre of Excellence for studies in classical languages is set up and the University Grants Commission is requested to create, to start with at least in the Central Universities, a certain number of professional chairs for the classical languages so declared.
  • The inclusion of languages as Classical Language will create significant employment opportunities, particularly in academic and research fields.
  • Additionally, the preservation, documentation, and digitization of ancient texts of these languages will generate jobs in archiving, translation, publishing, and digital media.
Source- The Hindu

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