Next month, the Indian government will launch the New Linguistic Survey of India, which seeks to update and expand the work directed a century ago by George Abraham Grierson:
What are the objectives of the [New Linguistic Survey of India]? It will primarily profile the Indian linguistic space by describing each language and speech variety, its structure, socio-cultural role and demographics. The survey will make possible a reasonable lexicon and grammatical sketch for each language. It will also record the interactions between various linguistic communities, which involves tracking bilingualism and multilingualism. There will also be a massive audio-visual documentation of speech varieties. Linguistic maps, charts, graphs and atlases of languages will be created. (Outlook)
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