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The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is a comprehensive survey of the languages of British India, describing 364 languages and dialects. [1] The Survey was first proposed by George Abraham Grierson , a member of the Indian Civil Service and a linguist who attended the Seventh International Oriental Congress held at Vienna in September 1886.
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.
Almost a hundred years after Grierson's survey, the International Centre for Research on Bilingualism completed its sociolinguistic Survey of India (1983-86), covering 50 major and minor languages in the country. Originally it had been intended to cover all the written languages except Sanskrit and English, but not enough data were collected ...
Tehriyali or (Gangapariya) or simply ("Tehri Garhwali") is a dialect of Garhwali, [1] belonging to the Central Pahari group (per Grierson). It is mostly spoken in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand state. Script & specimen. Sample of Tehriyali dialect from Grierson's book "Linguistic Survey of india" [2]
George Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India had recorded 179 languages and 544 dialects, while the 1931 census, which covered a somewhat more extensive area, noted 225 languages. [12] The 1872 and 1881 censuses attempted to classify people fundamentally according to the Varna mentioned in ancient texts.
Often such groups work together (Clifton 2002). Some large and notable surveys include the Linguistic Survey of India which was begun by George Abraham Grierson late in the 19th century (Sociolinguistics research in India) and the Survey of Language Use and Language Teaching in East Africa, sponsored by the Ford Foundation from the 1960s
This template produces a citation for Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India. It takes two unnamed parameters for the volume and part numbers, for example: {{Linguistic Survey of India|11}} produces: Grierson, George A. (1922). Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. XI, Gypsy languages. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.
The People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI) is a linguistic survey launched in 2010 in order to update existing knowledge about the languages spoken in the modern republic of India. The survey was organized by the NGO Bhasha Research and Publication Centre , Baroda, founded by G. N. Devy , a social activist, and was conducted by 3500 ...