| Literacy Online - Papers from the 2nd Asia Regional Literacy Forum (2443 words) |
 | It is significant to note that Indio-Aryan languages (19) are spoken by 74% of the Indian population, the Dravidian languages (16) by 24% of the population, and the Tibeto Burman languages (48) together with Austro-Asiatic languages (13) are spoken by only 2% of the population. |
| Language status and language expectation as well as language use determine the overall position of a language in the hierarchy of languages in a multi-lingual country. |
| An illiterate rural person may not be able to read and write any language, and yet he might want to become literate in one or more languages that he/she controls according to his or her perception of the importance of that language. |
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