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Vaishnaw said that Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali have been included in the classical language category...
The Union Cabinet has approved the recognition of five more languages as "classical," Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, expanding the nation's list of culturally significant tongues.T)..
PM Modi has always focused on Indian languagesToday, five languages =Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali have been approved as classical languages, Vaishnaw said..
"On behalf of the people of Assam, I extend my gratitude to Honble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji and the entire Union Cabinet for the historic decision to accord Assamese the status of Classical Language," Sarma posted..
Knowledge Texts: In addition to poetry, the language must have a corpus of prose, including knowledge texts, epigraphical, and inscriptional evidence. . Distinct Evolution: The classical language and its literature can be distinct from its modern form, or it may have evolved into newer forms, with possible discontinuity from its original structure..
