Ministry of Home Affairs completes mother tongue survey of 576 languages
The Hindu
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 to preserve and analyse the original flavour of each indigenous mother tongue.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has successfully completed a mother tongue survey with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country.
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.
“For this purpose, proper editing in arranging the linguistic data by in-house linguists is under process,” it said.
“The Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) project is successfully completed with field videography of 576 mother tongues,” the report said.
The Home Ministry said the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is a regular research activity in the country since the 6th Five Year Plan.
In continuation to earlier publications under this project, the volume on LSI Jharkhand is finalised and that on LSI Himachal Pradesh is nearing completion. The field work of LSI Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh is going on.
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