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EXPRESSIONS OF INDIA

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THE ALPHABET CRADLE

Sumerians used clay tablets with Pictographs to keep records (4000 B.C.)

Cuneiform (Wedge-shaped) script evolved as a full syllabic alphabet (3000 B.C.)

Egyptian literature begins

Chinese Shang Dynasty (1000 B.C.)

Phoenician alphabet (1600 B.C.) ancestor of all European, Middle-Eastern Indian, S-E Asian, Ethiopian & Korean alphabets Hammurabi (1750 B.C.)

Elba Civilization (2500 B.C.)

Peruvian neolithic Ceremonial Centres

Aryans invade India

Bronze age Minoan civilization emerges on Crete

Mt. Sinai revelations to Moses

Mexican Olmec Civilization

The myriad spoken and written languages of India belong to four major language families. According to the 1961 census there are in all 1,652 languages. Subsequently the 1971 census recorded 700 languages after taking into account only dialects spoken by more than a thousand people. The following 18 official languages are recognised by the Government of India as on 1st July 1993. The 18 Official languages : Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION

AUSTRO-ASIATIC

UNCLASSIFIED

INDO ARYAN DRAVIDIAN

SINO-TIBETAN

Kamari

Madhya Pradesh

INDO ARYAN

DRAVIDIAN

Assam, Madhya Pradesh

Katia

Madhya Pradesh D & N Haveli,

Bihari Bishnupu riya Haijong Khorta Kishanga njia

I Southern Centrnl Group

Assam

Katkari

Varli Dadra and JNagar Haven Chakma

Assam, Tripura

Gujarat, Maharashtra. Daman and Diu, Goa,

Gujarat. Haijong/Hajong

Assam

Konkani

Bihar, West Bengal

Maharashtra,

Bihar

Karnataka

II Sinhalese Group

West Bengal

Koshti Marathi

Madhya Pradesh,

Amindiv Islands, Magahi/Maghadi

Bihar

Maharashtra Maharashtra,

Kerala, Laccadive, Minicoy.

Bihar, West Bengal Assam, West Bengal

Marathi

Madesi Magahi

Karnataka

Bihar

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh

Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,

Parvar Taakri

III North Western Oriya Multani Maharashtra, Punjab Sindhi Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh, Punjab. IV Western Group Kachchhi Gujarat, Maharashtra Punchhi Jammu and Kashmir

Oriya Panchipa rganta Rajbangs i Relli Sadan/Sa dri Surajpuri

Orissa Bihar

Maharashtra

VII Pahari Group Baghati Himachal Pradesh Bhadrawahi Jammu & Kashmir

West-Bengal Andhra-Pradesh Bihar, Assam, Madhya Pradesh

Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu &

Bharmauri/Gaddi

Bihar

Chameali Churahi

VI Southern Group

V Eastern Group VI Southern Group Assamese Assam, Dinar, West Bengal Bengali Assam, Bihar, West Bengal

Dogri

Guanese Govari

Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh

Bhatri Madhya Pradesh

Kashmir

Bhojpuri Bihar, Uttar Pradesh

Garhwali

Himachal Pradesh