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Sanskrit in
Utarakhand
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On July 17,
2008
Utarakhand
Sanskrit
Academy
announced
initiative
to launch a
programme to
to revive
the language
of ancient
India,
“Sanskrit”
in all 13
districts of
the state.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
According to
Census of
India of
2001, 29
languages
are spoken
by more than
a million
native
speakers,
122 by more
than 10,000.
·
Three
millennia of
language
contact has
led to
significant
mutual
influence
among the
four
language
families in
India and
South Asia.
Two contact
languages
have played
an important
role in the
history of
India:
Persian and
English
·
By a formal
declaration
of the
Indian
government,
Sanskrit
and
Tamil
are accorded
special
recognition
as Classical
Languages of
India.
·
Article 343
of the
Indian
Constitution
recognises
Hindi in
Devanāgarī
script as
the official
language of
central
government
India.
·
The
Constitution
also allows
for the
continuation
of use of
the English
language for
official
purposes.
Article 345
provides
constitutional
recognition
to "official
languages"
of the union
to include
any one or
more of the
languages in
use in the
state or
Hindi
language
adopted by a
state
legislature
as the
official
language of
that state.
In effect,
there are
"official
languages"
at the state
and central
level but no
one
"national
language".
·
Until the
Twenty-First
Amendment of
the
Constitution
in 1967, the
country
recognised
14 official
regional
languages.
·
The Eighth
Schedule and
the
Seventy-First
Amendment
provided for
the
inclusion of
Sindhi,
Konkani,
Manipuri and
Nepali,
thereby
increasing
the number
of official
regional
languages of
India to 18
·
The
Constitution
of India
recognises
22 languages,
spoken in
different
parts the
country,
namely
1.Assamese,
2.Bengali,
3.Bodo,
4.Dogri,
5.Gujarati,
6.Hindi,
7.Kannada,
8.Kashmiri,
9.Konkani,
10.Maithili,
11.Malayalam,
12.Santali,
13.Marathi,
14.Nepali,
15.Oriya,
16.Punjabi,
17.Sanskrit,
18.Santhali,
19.Sindhi,
20.Tamil,
21.Telugu
and 22.
Urdu.
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