{"id":75212,"date":"2021-01-04T12:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=75212"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:16:41","slug":"classical-languages-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/classical-languages-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical Languages in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>At the 93rd edition of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan,a resolution was passed demanding the declaration of Marathi as a Classical Languages in India .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Classical languages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, six languages enjoy the \u2018Classical Languages in India \u2019 status namely Tamil (declared in 2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada (2008), Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013), and Odia (2014).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Guidelines for declaring a Classical Languages in India <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High antiquity of its early texts\/recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years;<\/li>\n<li>A body of ancient literature\/texts, which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers;<\/li>\n<li>The literary tradition be original and not borrowed from another speech community;<\/li>\n<li>The classical language and literature being distinct from modern, there may also be a discontinuity between the classical language and its later forms or its offshoots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Benefits provided to a classical language:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two major annual international awards for scholars of eminence in classical Indian languages.<\/li>\n<li>A Centre of Excellence for studies in Classical Languages is set up.<\/li>\n<li>The University Grants Commission (UGC) is requested to create to start at least in the Central Universities,a certain number of Professional Chairs for the Classical Languages so declared.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: At the 93rd edition of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan,a resolution was passed demanding the declaration of Marathi as a Classical Languages in India . Facts: About Classical languages: Currently, six languages enjoy the \u2018Classical Languages in India \u2019 status namely Tamil (declared in 2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada (2008), Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013),&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/classical-languages-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Classical Languages in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351,1310],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":8,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}