Summary:
One might get a stock reply - Gujarati.But believe it or not, 50 languages are spoken here. The 902 page volume identified 50 languages including 24 spoken in tribal regions, 11 of nomadic communities and five from the coastal region. This implies 30 lan guages disappeared from the state," said chief edi tor of the volume and foun der of BRPC Padma Shri Ga nesh Devy. "The PLSI has also left the scholars and researchers concerned as it has come to light that as against 80 languages identified as mother tongues in a 1961 survey, the number of languages has gone down to 50. The volume has been edited by professor Kanji Patel.The survey has also identified a series of languages that are on the verge of extinction..