US based Hindi Sangam Foundation will be organising the Third International Hindi Conference at Rutgers University, New Jersey from March 4-6, 2016 to promote Hindi in America. Rutgers has agreed to host the 2016 conference as it foresaw great potential in establishing a strong bond with the Indian-American community as well as the government of India which supported the conference in the past through its mission in New York. The first such conference, held at New York University in April 2014. The second was held at Rutgers University in April 2015.
The 2016 conference will provide a forum for community members and leaders, language experts, policy makers, education administrators, advocates and other stakeholders from different countries.
- The Constitution of India does not give any languages the status of national language
- The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, which have been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status and official encouragement.
- the Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.
- The major Dravidian language are Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam andTulu.
- Tamil is one of the longest surviving classical languages in the world. Apart from the usual numerals, Tamil also has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000.
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