Written by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
The Karnataka authorities is more likely to make Tulu the second official language of the state after Kannada. A committee has been already constituted concerning it and it’ll quickly submit the report back to the state authorities.
Karnataka’s power and tradition minister Sunil Kumar tweeted, “Concerning the declaration of Tulu because the second official language of Karnataka, a committee has been fashioned below the management of Dr. Mohan Alva to conduct a examine and provides a report with acceptable suggestions.”
The demand to declare Tulu because the second official language is longstanding and in 2008, former CM BS Yediyurappa additionally mentioned that Tulu shall be declared because the official language. There have been additionally many campaigns concerning the necessity to make Tulu the official language as a big part of the individuals converse the language in coastal Karnataka area akin to Udupi and Mangaluru districts.
Other than Kannada and Tulu, languages like Kodava, Byari and Koraga are additionally spoken in numerous areas of the state. Presently, there are 22 official languages in India which embody Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.