The Union Cabinet on Thursday expanded the list of India's 'Classical Languages' to 11 by including Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali in it. Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and ...

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 ...

TEHRAN (ANI) – To deepen cultural ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced that India has decided to include Farsi (Persian) as one of the nine classical languages in India under the New ...

In her recent op-ed, Mayukha Karnam makes an excellent and important point that Greek and Latin are by no means the world’s only classical languages, and the “Languages at Harvard” booklet she cites ...

The campaign for classical language status for Maithili has recently gained renewed momentum, especially following the Union Cabinet’s approval of classical language recognition for five new languages ...

Mumbai: The Centre has issued an official notification conferring the status of classical language on Marathi. State Minister of Marathi Language Uday Samant and Union Minister of Culture Gajendra ...

The Maharashtra government has announced that October 3 will be celebrated as 'Classical Marathi Language Day' following the Centre's decision last year to confer the status of classical language on ...

The decision by the union government in 2004 to create a new category called the “classical language” tends to privilege a handful of Indian languages over numerous others. Constituting some languages ...

Per Arts & Sciences college requirements, many Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees require the completion of at least eight semester hours of work in a modern or classical language. Some ...