Cabinet approves conferring status of Classical Language to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali languages.

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CLASSICAL LANGUAGE

The Government of India decided to create a new category of languages as “Classical Languages” on 12th October 2004. It declared Tamil as Classical Language and setting following as criteria for the status. The criteria for inclusion included the high antiquity of its early texts/ recorded history over a thousand years; and the originality of the literary.

In November 2004, a Linguistic Experts Committee (LEC) was constituted by the Ministry of Culture under the Sahitya Akademi. LEC to examine the eligibility of the languages proposed to be accorded status

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