Current Affairs In Feb 2014
Odia on Thursday became the sixth language of the country to get "classical language" status after the Union Cabinet conceded a long-pending demand. for putting it in the same league as
Already five languages has Classical Language status, these are :
- Sanskrit,
- Tamil,
- Telugu,
- Kannada and
- Malayalam.
The criteria for declaring a language as classical mandates high antiquity of its early texts/recorded history over a period of 1,500-2,000 years, a body of ancient literature/texts which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers and a literary tradition that is original and not borrowed from another speech community.
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