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The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is located at:
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Answer: Option A — Mysuru, Karnataka
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The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) is located in Mysuru (Mysore), Karnataka.
About the CIIL:
- It was established on 17 July 1969 by the Government of India.
- It functions under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.
- It was set up to help develop Indian languages and to coordinate language development activities, in line with the language policy of the Government of India.
Its main functions include:
- Research in linguistics, especially on Indian languages, including tribal and endangered languages.
- Preparing teaching materials, dictionaries and grammars.
- Training teachers in second-language teaching through its Regional Language Centres.
- Language technology and the creation of language data for Indian languages.
- Promoting translation between Indian languages.
Its initiatives include:
Regional Language Centres (RLCs): at Mysuru, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Patiala, Solan, Guwahati and Lucknow. They train teachers in languages other than their own.
"Bharatavani" portal: a multilingual knowledge portal.
National Translation Mission (NTM).
Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL).
Scheme for the Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL).
Centres of Excellence for classical languages such as Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Odia.
Other language institutions in India:
- Kendriya Hindi Sansthan: Agra; teaches and promotes Hindi.
- Central Hindi Directorate: New Delhi.
- Central Institute of Classical Tamil: Chennai.
- National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL): New Delhi.
- English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU): Hyderabad.
- Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology: New Delhi.
About Indian languages:
- The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution lists 22 languages.
- India now has 11 classical languages: Tamil (2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada and Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013), Odia (2014), and Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali (2024).
Why not the other options?
- ✗New Delhi has the Central Hindi Directorate.
- ✗Agra has the Kendriya Hindi Sansthan.
- ✗Hyderabad has the English and Foreign Languages University.
Quick tip
Remember: CIIL = Mysuru (17 July 1969; Ministry of Education; Regional Language Centres; Bharatavani); Kendriya Hindi Sansthan = Agra; EFLU = Hyderabad; 11 classical languages (five added in 2024).
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