New Delhi: The Union Cabinet approved granting 'classical language' status to five additional languages on Thursday: Marathi, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, and Assamese. With this cabinet decision, the ...

Latin and classical Greek are not merely linguistic puzzles on a page. They develop one’s ability to negotiate real-life cultural barriers as effectively as any living language, while providing ...

Mumbai: ​Sindhi speakers have sent representations to the Union government to declare it as a classical language, similar to the status enjoyed by 11 other Indian languages.

The Indian government has recently granted classical language status to five languages- - Bengali, Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, and Assamese. This decision brings the total number of classical languages in ...

Pune: A committee of senior scholars at the city-based Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad (MSP) began work in 2016 after putting together all the documentation for granting classical language status to ...

Quid est? and Sic semper tyrannis! can still hold their own against ¿Que pasa? and Parlez-vous Francais? in today's schools. Just ask Sarena Matriano Lim, 15 and a sophomore at Shreveport's Loyola ...

Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...

The Janata Dal (United) on Monday demanded classical language status for Maithili, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal. The party, led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish ...

The story so far: The Union Cabinet approved classical status for five more languages earlier this month — Marathi, Bengali, Assamese, Pali, and Prakrit — by tweaking the criteria for the declaration.

History is often prey to socio-political demands. The Centre’s recognition of Bengali as a classical language along with four others gave rise to a kind of congratulatory pleasure in the West Bengal ...