which organisation decides the classical lanuage status?

Question

Recently tamil has been announced as classical language by the government of India. To get the classical language status worldwide what the tamils have to do? is there any organisation which approves that status worldwide?

Answer 1

To qualify as a classical tradition, a language must fit several criteria: it should be ancient, it should be an independent tradition that arose mostly on its own not as an offshoot of another tradition, and it must have a large and extremely rich body of ancient literature.
Unlike the other modern languages of India, Tamil meets each of these requirements. It is extremely old ( older than Latin and Arabic); it arose as an entirely independent tradition, with almost no influence from Sanskrit the mother of indo-aryan language or other languages; and its ancient literature is indescribably vast and rich.
The status of Tamil as one of the great classical languages of the world is something that is patently obvious to anyone who knows the subject.
To deny that Tamil is a classical language is to deny a vital and central part of the greatness and richness of Indian culture.

The inhabitants of North India naturally spoke a
Dravidian language in which the earliest proportion of the words used are found in Tamil. This confirms the common belief that
Tamil is the oldest of the present languages.
Unlike Sanskrit the language of primitive invaders .
Dravidian languages which possess a very old history of their own, which their
legends, the Tamil Sangha literature, show a history in South India and Sri Lanka dating back over five thousand years.
Tamil can be claimed to be one of the longest unbroken literary traditions of any of the
world's living languages.

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA also mentioned Tamil is perhaps the only example
of an ancient classical tongue which
has survived as a spoken language for
more than 3000 years without its basic
structure almost unchanged.

"Recently" Tamil has been announced as classical language by the government of India.
In trying to discern why Tamil has not been recognized as a classical language is only a political reason: This is an unnecessary worry. History and truth is well aware of the richness of the modern Indian languages -- knowing that they are among the most fecund and productive languages on earth, each having begotten a modern (and often medieval) literature that can stand with any of the major literatures of the world. Yet none of them is a classical language.
Like English and the other modern languages of Europe (with the exception of Greek), they rose on preexisting traditions rather late and developed in the second millennium.
The fact that Greek is universally recognized as a classical language in Europe does not lead the French or the English to claim classical status for their languages.
India will try promote Hindi or Sanskrit the mother of indo-aryan language, but to deny the status of Tamil as classical language in India is a joke, coz it"s a well known fact, so due to selfish political reason having the so call power in hand cannot cover the facts for long.

Answer 2

Just like in architecture or art, there is no "committee" that assigns "classical" status to something. Was Tamil written over 500 years ago? Were any great works of literature or science written in Tamil over 500 years ago? If so, then I will call Old Tamil "Classical Tamil".

Answer 3

No, there is no worldwide organization that decides on language status. It sounds like, for India, the organization that did this is the government. In other cases, though, I don't think an organization has to do it; just speakers of that language agree subconsciously.