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  3. Culture of India. Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [5] [6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. [7] [8] [9] [a] Languages spoken by the ...

  4. India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam.

    First Language Speakers(language)
    First Language Speakers(figure [14])
    Second Language Speakers [14]
    Third Language Speakers [14]
    322,230,097
    26.61%
    139,207,180
    97,237,669
    8.03%
    9,037,222
    83,026,680
    6.86%
    12,923,626
    81,127,740
    6.70%
    11,946,414
  5. Individual mother tongues in India number several hundred, and more than a thousand if major dialects are included. The SIL Ethnologue lists over 400 languages for India; 24 of these languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, and 114 by more than 10,000.

  6. Nov 19, 2019 · Find information about Languages in India, Indian Languages Map, and List of Indian Languages by number of native speakers, Indian Scheduled Languages, States official languages, Local...

  7. Feb 15, 2019 · A census conducted in 2011 showed that India has about 19,569 languages and dialects, of which almost 1,369 are considered dialects and only 121 are recognized as languages (the acceptance criterion being that the language has 10,000 or more speakers).

  8. Travel around India, and you’ll hear a multitude of languages and musical dialects. In fact, it may feel like you hear hundreds. You wouldn’t be wrong. So how many Indian languages are there? While India has 22 separate official languages, it is home to a total of 121 languages and 270 mother tongues. It’s also home to the world’s ...

  9. Of the hundreds of languages spoken in India, 22 are mentioned in the constitution of India: Assamese, Bengali (Bangla), Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, and Urdu all belong to the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European; Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Te...

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