Recently, Bihar has demanding which language to be granted as classical language status?
(A) Bhojpuri
(B) Maithili
(C) Magadhi
(D) Bihari
Answer: B
The language must have a documented history or early texts between 1,500 and 2,000 years old. Maithili has a literary history of around 1,300 years, and the state has demanded it to be recognize as a classical language.
The recognized classical languages are:
- Tamil (2004)
- Sanskrit (2005)
- Telugu (2008)
- Kannada (2008)
- Malayalam (2013)
- Odia (2014)
- Marathi (2024)
- Bengali (2024)
- Pali (2024)
- Prakrit (2024)
- Assamese (2024)