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The 1961 Census of India had recorded 1652 languages being in use in India. However, it was decided to exclude languages spoken by less than 10,000 people in the 1971 Census, which brought down the figure to 108 languages. [2] PLSI has followed the policy of including all languages in the survey, irrespective of the number of users.
The Government of India announced an ambitious project to expand and revise the Linguistic Survey of India. In the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–12) Rs. 2.8 billion was sanctioned for the project. It was classified into two sections: a New Linguistic Survey of India and a Survey of Minor and Endangered Languages.
Methods used in language surveys depend on the questions that the survey is trying to answer. Methods used include collecting word lists, [7] playing recorded texts to assess comprehension, [8] [9] sentence repetition tests, [10] questionnaires, [11] group and individual interviews, retelling of stories, [12] direct observation, [13] pointing to pictures after listening to instructions, [14 ...
From 1881, language information was explicitly sought in the census, which found a total of 162 languages in the country (116 Indian languages and 46 foreign languages). Questions about language continued to be included in the 10-yearly census in the following years, and in 1896 George Abraham Grierson began his Language Survey of India, in ...
A resolution was passed urging the Government to undertake a 'deliberate systematic survey of the languages of India.' The signatories included Karl Bühler, Max Müller, Monier Williams and Grierson. The recommendation was made to the British Government and in 1898 he was appointed Superintendent of the newly formed Linguistic Survey of India.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
For 2 servings as an entrée or 4 as part of a larger meal, you’ll need: 1 medium lemon. 1 tablespoon salt, plus more for seasoning. 1 (9-ounce) package fresh fettuccine or homemade tagliatelle.
Great Trigonometrical Survey: 1802 - 1806 East India Company: Linguistic Survey of India: 1894 - 1928 British Raj: Economic Survey of India: 1950 - present Ministry of Finance: National Family Health Survey: 1992 - present Ministry of Health and Family Welfare: National Achievement Survey: 2001 - present Ministry of Education: All India Survey ...