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With
over 10,00,000 pages coming up in next couple of months, this web
site will be a unique Resource House devoted to the cause of Indian
Language Computing. We will leave no stone unturned in making it
possible.
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India is
a country of diverse culture. It has 22 official languages and over a
thousand spoken languages. This
site is an effort to provide information on each known Indian Language.
Individual
mother tongues in India number several hundred. According to Census of
India of 2001, 29 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers,
122 by more than 10,000. Two languages have played an important role in
the history of India: Persian and English.
Sanskrit
and Tamil are the classical languages of India according to the Government.
Article 343
of the Indian Constitution recognises Hindi in Devanagari 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 language adopted by a state legislature as
the official language of that state. In effect, there are "official languages"
at the state and center 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 Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Meitei, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi,
Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Hindi is
an official language of the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand,
Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh,
Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Marathi is an official
language of Maharashtra. Punjabi is a official language of Punjab. Gujarati
is the official language of Gujarat. Tamil is a official language of Tamil
Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Malayalam is the official
language of Kerala and Lakshadweep. Kannada is the official language of
Karnataka. Telugu is the official language of Andhra Pradesh. English
is the co-official language of the Indian Union.
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