November 01, 2024
- The Union Cabinet has added five more languages– Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Prakrit and Pali–to India’s official list of classical languages, taking the number of languages with the status from six to 11.
- Indian classical languages are languages that have a rich historical and cultural background. Languages are given this prestigious recognition on the basis of various criteria including strong heritage, originality and hundreds of years of records of the language in the form of literature and texts.
- The Indian government began granting languages this status with the goal of promoting them. Tamil was the first language to achieve this recognition in 2004.
- Following Tamil, Kannada, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Telugu and Odia were also granted the tag.
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