(i) Meaning and Definition of Linguism: Linguism is excessive love and bias in favour of people who speak a particular language.

(ii) India as a country of multi-languages: You might have met people speaking Hindi, English, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati etc. Different languages spoken by the people of our nation reveals clearly that India is a multilingual nation. We have 18 different languages in schedule VIII of our Constitution. Hindi and English are our official languages. Each language has its literature and script. Linguism limits the people speaking the same language.

(iii) Relationship between Language and Culture: Language and culture are inseparable. Language is the carrier of culture. It carries culture from one generation to the next from one group to another. The teaching of a language to people speaking another language promotes the feelings of integration. But conflict often occurs over the relative status of language. This parochial tendency destroys the feeling of national integration. Our country has witnessed lingual riots in Tamil Nadu in 1964 and Assam 1967.

(iv) Great Loss of Linguism: Like communalism, the term linguism is used in a negative sense. Linguism patterns pose a threat to national integration.

(v) India and its Principal Languages: 18 principal languages and their percentage in total population are being present to make the learners understand the lingual situation of our nation.