Official State Languages query

Narayan S. Raja raja at galileo.IFA.Hawaii.Edu
Tue Aug 20 02:21:55 UTC 1996



On Sat, 17 Aug 1996 gail at utxvms.cc.utexas.edu wrote:

> I don't know of a text that does this but the national languages are
> actually only Hindi and English -- that is, Hindi is the primary one and
> English is the associate national language. The other 17 mentioned in
> previous discussions are official languages; that is, each of them is a
> state language of at least one state,

Actually, I believe it's the other way
round -- English and Hindi are
"official languages", whereas every
language on the list (including Hindi,
and presumably English too, since
it's the state language of Nagaland)
is a "national language".  Pl. correct
me if I'm mistaken.

Regards,


Raja.







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