Good News Centre adds five more languages to classical status

[Arpan Ghosh]

In a major decision, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved giving the status of 'classical language"'to five more languages - Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit and Assamese. With this cabinet decision, the number of languages that have the status will nearly double from six to 11.

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Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit And Assamese Get Classical Language Status

In a major decision, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved giving the status of "classical language" to five more languages - Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit and Assamese.

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11 languages are
Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, odia, Bangla, Marathi, Assamese , Pali, Pakrit

 

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The Union Cabinet’s decision to accord classical language status to five new languages, including Marathi and Bengali, came after a key provision, which mandated that a language must have original literary tradition, was dropped.

Five languages got classical status after ‘original literary tradition’ norm was dropped

Union Cabinet’s decision to accord classical language status to five new languages, including Marathi and Bengali, came after a key provision, which mandated that a language must have original literary tradition, was dropped

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