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Language Atlas of India
March 1 , 2024
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- The Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, proposes to conduct a linguistic survey across the country to create a ‘Language Atlas’ of India.
- It aims to enumerate how many languages are spoken and in which States and regions, can provide the answer.
- The IGNCA is an autonomous body under the Union Culture Ministry.
- India recognises 22 languages officially, which are part of Schedule 8 of the Indian Constitution.
- According to Census data, 97 % of the Indian population speaks one of these languages.
- There are an additional 99 non-scheduled languages included in the Census, and according to the 2011 Census.
- Around 37.8 million people identify one of these non-Scheduled languages as their mother tongue.
- The native language of 1.2 million people remains unaccounted for due to the decision to not include languages with less than 10,000 speakers in the Census since 1971.
- The 1961 Census of India recorded 1,554 languages spoken in India.
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