A sub-committee of India's Human Resources Development ministry has been set up to work on protecting India's non-scheduled languages, according to yesterday's Times of India. Non-scheduled languages are those mainly tribal and border languages that are not included officially in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India; in other words they are not one of the 22 official languages recognised by the Indian government.
In 2007 the Mysore-based Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) formulated the Bharat Bhasha Vikas Yojana (BBVY) with the objective of protecting India's minority languages, and this project will soon be implemented. The project was initiated due to the large numbers of endangered languages on the sub-continent.
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