{"id":30383,"date":"2024-10-04T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=30383"},"modified":"2024-10-04T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:40:08","slug":"5-new-languages-granted-the-classical-language-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/04-10-2024\/5-new-languages-granted-the-classical-language-status","title":{"rendered":"5 New Languages Granted the Classical Language Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS1\/Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Union Cabinet has granted classical language status to <strong>Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali,<\/strong> increasing recognized classical languages to <strong>eleven.<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Cabinet also <strong>updated the eligibility criteria<\/strong> for classical languages under the Centre\u2019s Language Expert Committee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Classical Languages<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>India had six classical languages<\/strong> \u2014 Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Odia.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tamil was declared a classical language in <strong>2004<\/strong>, Sanskrit in <strong>2005<\/strong>, Kannada in <strong>2008<\/strong>, Telugu in <strong>2008<\/strong>, Malayalam in <strong>2013<\/strong>, and Odia in <strong>2014<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All the Classical Languages are listed in the <strong>Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Criteria: <\/strong>It should have <strong>high antiquity<\/strong> of its early texts\/recorded history over a period of 1,500-2,000 years,\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a body of ancient literature or texts that is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the presence of \u201cknowledge texts\u201d, especially prose texts in addition to poetry, epigraphical and inscriptional evidence,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the said language and literature should be distinct from its modern format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong> The Education Ministry provides certain benefits to promote it such as:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>two major annual international awards for scholars of eminence in the said languages,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a Centre of Excellence for Studies in the classical language is set up,\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>and the University Grants Commission is requested to start with a certain number of Chairs for the classical language at least in the Central Universities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/marathi-bengali-among-5-new-classical-languages-101727983128806.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union Cabinet has granted classical language status to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali, increasing recognized classical languages to eleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30384,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30383\/revisions\/30384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}