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Salient features of the language survey

  •   Thu, Sep 12 2013 01:14:23 PM

New Delhi, Sep 12 (IANS): * There are 900 languages in India.

* Of these, 780 have been documented in 50 volumes.

* It took G.N Devy about 13 years for the project.

* Around 3,000 volunteers contributed by working closely with the people of different communities.

* Coastal communities and nomadic communities have suffered major linguistic losses.

* Konyak is the least-spoken language in Assam, while it is widely spoken in Nagaland.

* West Bengal has the highest number of scripts among all the states. Around 38 languages are spoken in the state.

* Twelve variants of Marathi and 38 other languages are spoken by people including adivasis, tribals, nomadic tribes and denotified communities in Maharashtra.
  

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