CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has completed the Mother Tongue Survey of India (MTSI) with field videography of the country’s 576 languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ministry of Home Affairs has successfully completed a mother tongue survey with field videography of 576 languages and dialects across the country.

Detailed explanation-3: -As per the 2011 census, 43.63 percent of Indians speak Hindi as their mother tongue. Bengali, with 8.03 percent speakers, is second in the list, followed by Marathi at 3rd with 6.86 percent speakers, Telugu at 4th with 6.7 percent speakers and Tamil at 5th with 5.7 percent speakers.

Detailed explanation-4: -The survey is conducted by 3500 volunteers, including 2000 language experts, social historians, and the staff of the NGO Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, and it has identified 780 languages in India. The 35,000 page survey is being published in 50 volumes.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the colonial rule the first linguistic survey was conducted during 1894 to 1928 by George A. Grierson that identified 179 languages and 544 dialects.