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The Central Institute of Indian Languages set
up in 1969 is entrusted with the responsibility
of developing Indian languages through research,
training and material production. The Indian
languages are at various stages of development
from the point of view of the extent of elaboration
of their functions and they require different
treatments. Development of the tribal languages
of the country involves many issues of policy,
implementation and academic contribution. Some
of them are to be reduced to writing and most
of them need codification from the point of
view of standardization, preparation of grammar,
dictionary and such other linguistic materials
and production of written literature.
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The grammars of various tribal languages, it
is hoped, will lead to a handbook of Indian
languages, which will be of great use to the
students of linguistics in India. India has
a long grammatical tradition and it is now absorbing
the grammatical models developed in the West.
It will be a worthy goal to achieve to develop
a grammatical model for the description of Indian
languages derived out of both traditional and
modern developments.
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