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Happy editing! Dcotos (talk) 06:17, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

November 2024

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that your recent edit to Classical languages of India did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

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Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account, you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary), and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! Dcotos (talk) 06:17, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Karnandus. I noticed that for the page 'Classical Languages of India' u made a change to my edit. I wanted to point out that the document I attached is the official document published by the Press Information Bureau by the Government of India and the Ministry of Culture. That is the official document and without that document Marathi language's classical status stands void. If you read that document carefully it is clearly mentioned that Maharashtri Prakrit and Marathi have continuity and it is just the name that evolved. There has been continuity throughout. Also the Expertd' committee of the Marathi language were able to prove this point and the Government too has acknowledged it. You put the date as 981 CE but for a classical language to be classical the minimum criterion itself is 1,500 years and there are many Marathi inscriptions before the 9th century and several religious texts(pothis) which are above 1,500 years old that are still read in households by generations of people to date

Hi Karnandus. I noticed that for the page 'Classical Languages of India' u made a change to my edit. I wanted to point out that the document I attached is the official document published by the Press Information Bureau by the Government of India and the Ministry of Culture. That is the official document and without that document Marathi language's classical status stands void. If you read that document carefully it is clearly mentioned that Maharashtri Prakrit and Marathi have continuity and it is just the name that evolved. There has been continuity throughout. Also the Expertd' committee of the Marathi language were able to prove this point and the Government too has acknowledged it. You put the date as 981 CE but for a classical language to be classical the minimum criterion itself is 1,500 years and there are many Marathi inscriptions before the 9th century and several religious texts(pothis) which are above 1,500 years old that are still read in households by generations of people to date Rightmostdoor6 (talk) 17:05, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

I strongly suggest as well as request you to go through this document link once where it us evidenced - https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData/specificdocs/documents/2024/oct/doc2024104409001.pdf

Even Maharashtrian ancestors would say that the oldest form of Marathi was Prakrut. Which means that this is a spoken tradition/thought that has been passed down since years. Marathi is the modern-day Maharashtri of today just in the same way it is for other languages like with Tamil as well. Just that the name did not evolve. The Tamil spoken 2000 years ago would almost be unintelligble to a modern day contemporary fellow Tamilian. In fact Tamil before 1920 was very different from the Tamil spoken today but Marathi has changed very less and the past 300 years' old Marathi would be very much intelligible to a fellow Maharashtrian. Rightmostdoor6 (talk) 17:12, 15 November 2024 (UTC)