05/10/2024
How will Marathi language benefit from its new status as classical languages?
The Marathi literary community believes that the status of Marathi will be enhanced worldwide, and will help to preserve, promote, and protect the language, and take it closer to the masses.
Marathi authors believe that a Central Institute of Classical Marathi will be set up in Maharashtra to facilitate the translation of ancient Marathi texts, promote research, and offer courses for university students and language scholars of Marathi — as has been done for Tamil.
The central government is expected to provide funds worth crores for research and for betterment of Marathi schools and libraries.
“There are 12,000 Marathi libraries in Maharashtra which need financial help. With Marathi language getting an uplift, they can look forward to receiving help,” Joshi said.
“’There are at least 450 universities in India where we expect arrangements will be made to teach Marathi,” he added.
It is also expected that national and international awards will be instituted to recognise and encourage achievements in the field of classical languages. National awards could be instituted for classical languages, and chairs in universities and centres for the promotion of these languages could be set up.
Classical language status is expected to create employment opportunities in the fields of academics and research. The tasks of preservation, documentation, and digitisation of ancient texts of these languages will likely generate jobs in archiving, translation, publishing, and digital media.
