Published in ‘Indian Languages and Cultures: A Debate’ Eds. Kailash Pattanaik and Arimardan Kumar Tripathi. Published by CFEL, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan, West Bengal in 2018 (ISBN-978-93-87441-31-6) Revitalization of minority languages Page 1 Revitalization of minority languages: Implications for language policy and planning Parman Singh SRP, SPPEL,CIIL, Mysuru parmansingh@gmail.com Abstract The paper presents a critical evaluation of minority languages and their endangered status in the context of complex multilingual situation in India. It examines the issues related to revitalization of minority languages and raises serious questions about language policy and planning in India in general and highlights the impending threat to the non-minority languages. It argues that without an adequate development of bilingualism the present century will not only see the extinction of minority languages but it will contribute to the minority status of the so called major languages or scheduled languages. Introduction: There are various estimates about the number of languages spoken around the globe but it is generally agreed that there are about 7000 languages spoken across the world. Several estimates proposed by academicians alarmed the world to the rate at which languages are going out of use. Krauss (1992) estimated that 90 percent of the world’s languages would be severely endangered or gone by 2100 while Nettle and Romaine (2000) and Crystal (2000) has a more optimistic estimate by which half of the languages will be lost. However, whether someone agrees or not with above estimates, it has become comprehensible to all that the world’s linguistic diversity is under threat and that major chunk of world’s languages everywhere are contracting in use and numbers of speakers. Definitely the loss of languages are irreparable loss to the humanity in several ways but when a language dies the loss will be indeed very great, if no documentation, recording or written records of that language remains. In other words definitely the language documentation projects are the need of the present day linguistic scenario but we should not stop here. Not only documentation and preservation of endangered languages should be the ultimate goal of the academia, but the linguists, sociologists, human rights activists, and the languages planner should come forward and in consultation with the minorities communities should plan not only about the revitalization of endangered languages but also the maintenance and development of all Indian languages including the scheduled as well. This articles aims to discuss some of the relevant points for revitalization of minority languages in Indian context.