Odia becomes classical language

Updated on: Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam have become the classical language already. Now, it is Odia which became the sixth language of the country.

Odia is the first language from the Indo Aryan Linguistic group, and the case for making it a classical language from the Indo Aryan linguistic group.

The supporting fact that odia has become a classic language is that it had no resemblance to Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali and Telugu.

Once a language is considered classical it gets financial assistance for getting up a centre of excellence and opens an avenue for too major awards for eminent scholars. This also make it possible for the university grants commission to create and to begin with at least in central universities, a certain number of professional chairs for classical languages for eminent scholars.

The literary scholars, intellectuals and politicians are happy in this declaratory of ODIA as a classical language.

Naveen patnaik, the Chief Minister of the state said that is a matter of pride for Odias. Odias people throughout the world.

This creates more opportunities for research and development of Odia.

The Government is taking all possible steps that odia should be given importance in all the schools.

The state Government announced that all government buildings has to be illuminated for the next three days Awareness programmes on the importance the language.

Odia becomes classical language

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