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130 living languages in region
- ‘Wealth’ of variants in NE, says surveyor
The Telegraph | Guwahati, July 17:
There are 130 living languages, including variants, in five states of the Northeast, some of them probably spoken by only four or five people, a survey conducted by an NGO has found.
G.N. Devy, chairperson of Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), an initiative undertaken under the auspices of the Gujarat-based Bhasa Research and Publication Centre, told reporters here today that they had completed the survey in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland and Manipur and the findings would be released in book form in New Delhi on September 5. He termed the Northeast’s diversity of language as its “wealth”.
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