A resolution for the formation of Joint Parliamentary
Committee was adopted unanimously today by the Maharashtra Legislative Council
for development of Marathi language.
The resolution was unanimously passed by the Council and was tabled by Maharashtra Education and Culture minister Vinod Tawde.
The committee was formed earlier on December 20, 2011, but it was not fully functional, the minister said.
He said that after that election were announced and thus, the committee was dissolved.
Tawde added that there will be 15 members in the committee which consists of 11 MLA's and 4 members from the council who will look after the use of Marathi language in all government and semi-government offices.
A 'Marathi Bhasha (language) Committee' will come into existence shortly, following the resolution.
In most of the schools of Maharashtra, instruction is mainly in Marathi, Hindi or English. Sometimes, Urdu is also used.
About Marathi Language
Marathi is the official language of the states of Maharashtra and Goa. It also has a number of speakers outside the country. With close to 73 million native speakers, Marathi stands as one of the 20 most spoken languages across the world. It is also the fourth most spoken language in India. It also finds a place in the eight schedule of the Indian constitution, making it one of the 23 official languages in the country. The language comes from the Indo-Aryan family of languages and boasts of one of the oldest literatures in the family. The language also holds the co-official status in the union territories of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu.
The bulk of the variation within these dialects is primarily lexical and phonological (e.g. accent placement and pronunciation). The majority of Marathi loan words come from Urdu, Persian, and Arabic.(other than Sanksrit of course). Additionally, Marathi preserves the neuter gender found in Sanskrit, a feature further distinguishing it from many Indo-Aryan languages.