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  1. 1 day ago · The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, [1] mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of the Nile meet. The languages extend through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria to ...

  2. 3 days ago · Statistic 10. "Urdu is spoken by more than 50 million people in India." Share this statistic: Cite. Statistic 11. "India has 6 classical languages: Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia." Share this statistic: Cite. Statistic 12.

  3. 5 days ago · The Bengali linguists Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen suggested that Bengali had its origin in the 10th century ce, deriving from Magahi Prakrit (a spoken language) through Magahi Apabhramsha (its written counterpart). The Bengali scholar Muhammad Shahidullah and his followers offered a competing theory, suggesting that the language ...

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  4. 5 days ago · Mumbai’s Main Language. Marathi, being the state language, holds a dominant position in Mumbai. It is the primary Indian language spoken in the city, followed by Gujarati, Hindi, and Bengali (Bangla). However, you can hear a wide range of languages being spoken in Mumbai due to its multicultural population. From Pashto and Arabic to Chinese ...

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  6. 2 days ago · The official languages of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are Hindi and English. However, the dominant and most spoken language is Bengali, with 26% of the population speaking it. Other languages spoken in the islands include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Nicobarese.

  7. 4 days ago · Russian. With 148 million native speakers, Russian is an East Slavic language and the Russian people's national language. Russian was also the official language of the former Soviet Union.

  8. 5 days ago · Dunghutti woman Deborah Hoger said there were more than 250 Indigenous languages and dialects being spoken across First Nation countries at the time of colonisation.

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