New Delhi: Minister of State for Culture and Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change Dr. Mahesh Sharma on Tuesday said a proposal for granting of classical status to Marathi language has been received from Marathi Language Department, Government of Maharashtra.
"The proposal was placed before the Committee of Linguistic Experts for its consideration which recommended the grant of classical status to Marathi language.
"The recommendation is under consideration of the Ministry", the minister said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
Six languages including Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia have already been given status of classical languages.
The criteria adopted by the government to determine the eligibility of a language for granting classical language status, are: High antiquity of its early texts/ recorded history over a period of 1500-2000 years, a body of ancient literature/ texts, which is considered a valuable heritage by generations of speakers, the literary tradition be original and not borrowed from another speech community and the classical language and literature being distinct from modern, there may also be a discontinuity between the classical language and its later forms or its offshoots.
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