The objective is to gather national and regional stakeholders in India including researchers, governments, NGOs, civil society and regional organizations, the private sector, the media and others to discuss on the key issues confronting indigenous languages, in order to help improve the present scenarios through knowledge-sharing and dissemination of good practices. During the conference, institutions, researchers and other stakeholders will showcase the research carried out for the preservation of indigenous languages, access, support and other related works. They shall explain how regional social development and the diffusion of official languages can support, not hinder, the survival of indigenous languages. At the end of the conference, a cultural programme shall highlight the place of language in regional songs and dances. Yet, an objective is to protect the indigenous languages not by considering them as folklore, museum-like elements of the past, but as a contemporary and lively basis of the cultural development of South India.