Govt completes mother tongue survey of 576 languages

DN Bureau

The Ministry of Home Affairs has successfully completed a mother tongue survey with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country. Read more on Dynamite News:

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New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs has successfully completed a mother tongue survey with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country.

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According to the annual report of the home ministry for 2021-22, it has been planned to set up a web archive at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to preserve and analyse the original flavour of each indigenous mother tongue.

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For this purpose, proper editing in arranging the linguistic data by in-house linguists is under process, it said. (PTI) 










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