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OCTOBER 04, 2024

India notifies five new classical languages!

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With over 121 languages and more than 19,500 dialects, India is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world.

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On October 3, 2024, the Government of India conferred the status of “classical language” to 5 languages.

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With this, the total number of classical languages in India has increased to 11. Here is a list of all the Indian classical languages!

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Data: pib.gov.in

Dates back to 100 BC

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Marathi

Dates back to 600 BC

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Pali

Spoken between 500 BC and 500 AD

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Prakrit

Image: blogs.bl.uk

Dates back to 400-500 AD

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Assamese

Image: wikipedia.org

Dates back to 900-1,000 AD

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Bengali

Dates back to 1,000 AD

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Odia

Dates back to 830 AD

Malayalam

Image: commons.wikimedia.org

Dates back to 350–400 AD

Kannada

Image: wikipedia.org

Dates back to 400 BC

Telugu

Image: commons.wikimedia.org

Dates back to 1,500 BC 

Sanskrit

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Dates back to 5th century BC

Tamil

5 oldest languages in the world

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