{"id":130518,"date":"2018-02-19T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=130518"},"modified":"2018-02-19T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T03:05:29","slug":"40-languages-endangered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/40-languages-endangered\/","title":{"rendered":"40 languages are endangered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 40 languages or dialects in India are considered to be endangered and is believed to be heading towards extinction as only a few thousand people speak them, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a report of the census directorate, there are 22 scheduled languages and 100 non-scheduled languages in the country which are spoken by a large number of people &#8211; one lakh or more. However, there are around 42 languages which are spoken by less than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are considered endangered and may be heading towards extinction, a home ministry official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A list prepared by UNESCO has also mentioned about the 42 languages or dialects in India which are endangered and they may be heading towards extinction, the official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 40 languages or dialects in India are considered to be endangered and is believed to be heading towards extinction as only a few thousand people speak them, officials said. According to a report of the census directorate, there are 22 scheduled languages and 100 non-scheduled languages in the country which are spoken by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[66703,66704,66702,48234,38144,2877],"class_list":["post-130518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-40-languages-are-endangered","tag-42-languages","tag-extinction","tag-languages","tag-speak","tag-unesco"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/e1-16.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}