{"id":8449,"date":"2023-04-12T08:14:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8449"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:35:43","slug":"language-friendship-bridge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/language-friendship-bridge-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Friendship Bridge Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Language Friendship Bridge Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>India is planning to create a <strong>pool of experts in languages spoken<\/strong> in countries like <strong>Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and Indonesia<\/strong> to facilitate better people-to-people exchanges.<\/li>\n<li>It plans to <strong>train five to 10 people<\/strong> in the official languages of each of these countries.<\/li>\n<li>As of now, the ICCR has zeroed in on 10 languages: Kazakh, Uzbek, Bhutanese, Ghoti (spoken in Tibet), Burmese, Khmer (spoken in Cambodia), Thai, Sinhalese and Bahasa (spoken in both Indonesia and Malaysia).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) was <strong>founded<\/strong> in 1950 by <strong>Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To actively participate in the <strong>formulation and implementation of policies<\/strong> and programmes pertaining to India\u2019s <strong>external cultural relations<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>To foster and <strong>strengthen cultural relations<\/strong> and mutual understanding between India and other countries<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>promote cultural exchanges<\/strong> with other countries and people, and to develop relations with nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a language?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a complex system of communication that enables humans to convey ideas, thoughts, and emotions through a set of symbols and rules. It is a structured system of sounds, words, and grammar that allows people to communicate with each other and express themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/strengthening-old-friendships-by-bridging-the-language-divide\/article66716808.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u00a0India to bridge language gap with neighbours<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Friendship Bridge Project aims to create experts in languages for better ties with countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}