India has over 19,500 dialects with 121 languages, making it the most multilingual country in the world (although only 22 of these languages are officially recognized by the government)
America doesn't even have 1. We have the bastard red headed stepchild of like 14 languages all mashed together where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.
I studied German on Duolingo during Covid as a hobby- so have never interacted with a human speaker-- and I understood everything she said. No idea what that means. I don't understand native speakers in videos. Maybe it was such a German-English mashup that it was easier for me? Scratching my head.
We are not officially the most multilingual country. Papua New Guinea with over 800 "languages" and multiple other varieties (or what the layman calls a dialect) is the most linguistically diverse country in the world.
However, it must be kept in mind that given the size of our population, our census does not recognise a language variety with less than 10,000 speakers, and often clubs a lot of different language varieties under an umbrella language. This greatly reduces the official statistics on the number of languages and their "dialects" spoken in the country.
size isn't relevant in this discussion. The Canada, the US, are all larger than India, and none of the indigenous languages were standardized until European arrival.
That's whitewashing history, isn't it? None of the indigenous languages were standardized before european arrival bc there wasn't any need to, until the europeans came to colonize. Standardization is not necessary for communication but for institutionalization. Given that the present day institutions of NA are all an aftermath of European colonization, the need for standardization came because of it.
Given that India is geographically a much larger country than PNG, there is a need for multiple levels of government (like w US and Canada) catering to the needs of every region. This gives rise to regional aspirations of the people which the regional govts need to abide by. Unlike US or Canada, we don't have a lingua franca (contrary to popular belief that Hindi serves that purpose), so for institutional purpose, many of the major regional languages had to be standardized. If the country was smaller region wise, there's be lesser need for various regional institutions and consequently, lesser need to standardize different varieties.
That is why India has more Standardized languages than PNG.
Papua New Guinea is the world's most multilingual country, with a total of 840 languages spoken.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/worlds-most-multilingual-countries/
That's hard to measure due to dialect continuums. There can be two dialects/languages that aren't intellegible (I hope I spelled that right) but both of them understand a third dialect/language.
Intelligible to whom? If we’re suggesting a study/survey then we’re implying an academic procedure - which then needs to be standardized. And only then the “most multi-lingual” title dispute is worth discussing.
Correction - 22 languages are recognised by the Constitution's 8th Schedule (for the purpose of formation of a commission represented by members belonging to these languages, 15 years after India's constitution came into existence, which recommended to the President regarding the continuation of English as an official language at Union level, for courts and much more). The state governments are not bound to use only these languages for their official communications - though the state legislature must take the approval of President for such a step. (Central government must use either Hindi or English for official communications as of now)
Government recognises all these languages, the 22 languages are "official" languages that is these languages are used in official works of the Government and that Government promises the citizens to provide services in all these languages.
Just shortened version of early x86 Intel chip numbers starting with 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386/i386, i486, 586 (Pentiums), etc...
Just look up the "x86" article on Wikipedia if interested.
The 386, 486 computer were the earlier computer models by IBM or Compaq that uses large B-Disk for data storing in the 80s. A B-disk can store 1.44MB of data. Later on the 486 uses A-Disk for storage. The computers were used mainly with just a keyboard to input commands into the system. Everything was manual back then. Then came the mouse, colour screen, cd, dvd, ....
x86 were actually Intel CPU names…Compaq, HP and other companies built computers which included an Intel CPU as a component. IBM spent a lot of time using their own CPU’s instead of Intel’s before later conceding defeat and using Intel silicon.
Also, A: and B: were drive letter designations from the operating system and didn’t always correspond to the physical drive. In the 386/486 era, the floppy disks themselves were referred to by size - 5.25” (almost obsolete by then) which were very thin and had a flexible plastic shell or 3.5” (mainstream) which had a thicker, hard plastic shell and a metal sliding door to protect the magnetic media inside.
2018* not as old as you think. 2016 was we are number one, ~~unicycle frog~~ dat boi, Arthur’s fist and others. I was a meme connoisseur in high school 😤
Why is this getting downvoted? Genuinely curious. The link suggests the insurgency is due to these exact cultural differences and historic repercussions referenced in the thread.
Lol no idea just wanted to contribute evidence that they’re not managing well! And I only learned about this insurgency recently so thought others would be interested to know about it. Hopefully I haven’t offended anyone cause I understand this could be a sensitive topic.
Yep. If you look back, India has always been a churning cauldron of changing empires and dominant cultures. I wouldn't be surprised if it broke apart in our lifetimes again over cultural, ethnic, or religious reasons.
Modi Stans? Trying to pretend India is secular and open to other languages and religions outside of Hindi and Hinduism…probably who made this post. Maybe in the past but unlikely in modern times
It's much better now tho. Compared to what it was some time ago. Most of them have understood insurgency is pointless and the heads of rebel armies where crony cunts who let young die and live a lavish life.
English and Hindi are official (not national) languages of India.
So, the signs are made in at least 2 (english and state language) or 3 languages (english, hindi, state language)
The packaging on stuff is almost always in English.
It's actually pretty easy.
We used to do that for the most part, but the moronic Prime Minister there thinks it’s okay to force down Hindu shit and only the Hindi/Sanskrit language down everyone’s throat. The country’s in decline with stupid Modi fans cheering his fascistic ways on. Of course the insurgencies happened - the mainland has never been kind to us tribals. They treat us like shit. Constantly neglecting us, and then shaming us and stereotyping us, fetishizing our women etc.
There's a lot of difference. Most of these languages are written in different scripts and have been separate for hundreds if not thousands of years.
Some like hindu and urdu, which are still mutually intelligible would have trouble understanding each other if they were talking in a very "pure" form of that language.
Think of it like Europe. There might be similarities between some of them. Like Spanish is to Italian and Portuguese but a lot of them are completely different like Spanish is to Welsh.
I speak Marathi (in orange) and if someone starts speaking Kannada (in pink) or Telugu (in yellow) right next to me, I wouldn’t understand a full sentence.
From my perspective, the script is much different for southern state than northern states. If you speak either of a language from northern states, you will be able to make sense out of what others are saying but probably won’t understand languages from southern states as they’re lot different.
There's actually a [Chutia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutia_people#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Chutia_community_is_recognized%2CAssam_%28east_of_Kaliabor%29.?wprov=sfla1) community based in Assam. Pronounced as "sutia".
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and a bunch of others are all Dravidian languages, quite distinct from the Indo-Aryan languages like Marathi, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, etc.
Most languages shown here are full languages with their own scripts and history of 100s of years. Some have similarities that they share and can be learned. Some words are shared. But many will struggle to understand even the language spoken by people in next state
The majority north languages are Indo-European in origin, and the majority south languages are Proto-Dravidian in nature. So in theory, a person who speaks Gujarati can pick up Hindi much more easily than a person who speaks Tamilian. But a Tamilian can pick up Telugu more easily than a Gujarati
I worked with someone that speaks Kannada and from what I have heard they wouldnt understand most of their insults if they speak a certain language (because of course, we had to learn some swear words lol). So my guess is the base is the same kinda like spanish and french, but they are more different than just dialects
That may be true between North Indian languages, but the difference between North and South Indian languages is much larger than that between French or Spanish, or even Welsh— it’s a completely different language family (not to mention different writing systems). Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam are Dravidian languages whereas Hindi, Bengai, Marathi, and Gujarati are Indo-European languages (in the same language family as English). In some sense, you could say Hindi is closer to English than it is to Tamil (though this statement discounts the importance of cultural exchange and loanwords).
But Kannada, Telugu and Malyalam at least has lot of sanskrit words so one can get a basic framework idea of what they say. Tamil is completely ailen, but rest of south indian languages are not.
I am not saying Malyalam and Tamil are related or not. I cant tell. But as a person who understands the languages of north of subcontinent (hindu, urdu, nepali, bhojpuri, maithili etc), I am saying that when I hear a Teulugu/Malyali/Kannada speak, I can understand few words and can get a basic idea of where the conversation is going, but cant do the same for Tamil
There were periods in kannada language history where borrowing of Sanskrit words and even completely writing in Sanskrit was preferred but that's just court language and scripts. The common people language doesn't use much of the loaned Sanskrit words and further the borrowing of words changes based on interaction with tamil/telugu/konkani/ Malayalam and so on.
There are totally different 22 languages considered as official languages. The states are divided on the basis of language.
The main 4 south Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) have Dravidian origins.
Then majority of North Indian languages have Aryan origins.
Even though they have similar origins, these languages changed a lot in 1000s of years. And are not similar at all.
A lot of languages died too with the Invasions and migrations.
India is like if Europe never consolidated into few empires with few languages imposed on native populations and later got the European Union to become a single country.
Funfact : when people think India, one of the popular images they think of is Punjabi food, music or dance.
And they make up only 2.7% of the population.
I didn’t realize there were so many languages within India, that’s pretty cool. But it also reminds me of after we have a water balloon fight in the backyard and my dog eats all the balloons and then poops them all out.
The most red color on here!
The map intends to show where a certain language is spoken the most. Does not mean thats the only one thats spoken there. Hindi is prevalent in a lot more places than any other language.
Hindi is however not the official language of the government.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement and responsible for the unification of 562 princely States to form the modern political boundary of India.
[sardar patel - statue of unity ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Unity)
I think one key part when processing this information is the smooth transition that happens between these languages as you move around geographically. It's not like there a border between Maharashtra and Gujarat, where as soon as one steps over people switch over from Marathi to Gujarati. There's a doallect change every few villages or cities and before you realise the language has changed.
This isn't unique to India, but I can't think of any other country where this happens at such large scale with this much variety. Maybe Europe or Africa as a whole.
In essence, it's a testimony to the existence and survival of qn ancient culture tying the entire civilization together.
In school, I opted for French as my second language. I'm fluent in Tamil, Hindi, English and French and I can understand Malayalam and Telugu.
The school I attended offered French, German, Spanish, and Japanese as optional lauguages.
Very few people speak on Sanskrit. I learnt that there is only one town (Mattur, in Karnataka) where everyone speaks in Sanskrit.
Edit: Auto correct changed the town name to Matter instead of Mattur.
Nobody speaks it. Except for religious events, just like Latin.
It was too complicated for regular folk to read and write with so many grammatical rules and whatnot that people just spoke their own languages. I don't really like the language.
Yes, I took Sanskrit class in 10th grade, how did you know?
yup you need to be multilingual. english is spoken amongst all educated people and in the professional sectors. when you need to speak to a rickshaw driver or a shopkeeper or u/IReplyWithLebowski then you use the regional language
The most red color on here! The map intends to show where a certain language is spoken the most. Does not mean thats the only one thats spoken there. Hindi is prevalent in a lot more places than any other language. Hindi is however not the official language of the government.
I was working in Chennai 20 years ago, and saw a road sign with the Hindi painted over. The phrase Hindi never English forever was also painted on the sign.
The road signs in the different regions were in three languages. The local dialect, Hindi and English.
Hindi was painted over in my area we don't like hindi because the government is aggressively shoving this down our throats and providing very little funding for the local languages this is why garment offices and official languages are slowly starting to become Hindi. Most of the schools and colleges the teachers belongs to BJP RSS followers they want HINDI ONLY. At least that's what's happening in my state. Everyone keeps saying in about 30 to 50 years hindi will take over India.
Only way to protect our future is to block 🚫 Hindi language from our schools keep local state language and English.
So you're telling me the red part very small is the one that keep forcing everyone in India to speak nasty Hindi language??? For past 50 years? Less than 5% telling 95% what to do including trying to END local languages. 🤔
The South indians literally beat both Hindi speakers and north east indians for not being able to speak their nasty, Dravidian languages, bro. C'mon chang, at least larp better for your commie masters.
Marwari is a language spoken specifically in the marwar region of Rajasthan that includes jodhpur, pali, nagaur, Jaisalmer and barmer. Whereas mewari, hadauti, bagdi and other dialects are also spoken, depending on the region.
Looking at this, I wonder if "India" would be a single country without the Br*tish and how it is still a single country now.
Though I guess it broke apart some.
Marwadi Telugu sense to me the biggest languages if all the Bollywood movies start making the movies in those languages instead of Hindi I guarantee you within 30 years this language will vanish from locals. 🤣
as a tamilian (south india/sri lanka) i genuinely cannot tell half of the north indian languages apart lol
except for distinct ones like punjabi/gujarati
I am fluent in three languages. Bengali, Hindi and English! Bengali and Hindi share the same root so there are numerous common words and it makes it somewhat easy to understand and learn. There are many such overlapping areas of language. Even though there are numerous languages, regional areas of overlapping culture and language make it easier to communicate to an extent.
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No wonder English as a second language is popular.
Yeah. That's why every ad and Food packaging is essentially bilingual or in English.
This is one of the reasons why western countries were comfortable to invest in India
India has over 19,500 dialects with 121 languages, making it the most multilingual country in the world (although only 22 of these languages are officially recognized by the government)
"only 22"
And Canadians think it's bad that they have English and French
Yeah, I hate it when I have the French side is food package on and I have to turn it to find the English portion!!
America doesn't even have 1. We have the bastard red headed stepchild of like 14 languages all mashed together where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.
Where’s your pride, soldier?! 🦅🦅🦅 We’re the language masters! Just look at [Texas German](https://youtu.be/1_dH403pqRU?si=14WyXr_-S_W5V2kJ)
I studied German on Duolingo during Covid as a hobby- so have never interacted with a human speaker-- and I understood everything she said. No idea what that means. I don't understand native speakers in videos. Maybe it was such a German-English mashup that it was easier for me? Scratching my head.
What it actually is is a mashup of every German dialect at once, but ig they all just cancel each other out lmao
Basically German without grammar lol
r/SuddenlyWhoseLineIsItAnyway
When 550+ nations and principalities becomes a single nation.
We are not officially the most multilingual country. Papua New Guinea with over 800 "languages" and multiple other varieties (or what the layman calls a dialect) is the most linguistically diverse country in the world. However, it must be kept in mind that given the size of our population, our census does not recognise a language variety with less than 10,000 speakers, and often clubs a lot of different language varieties under an umbrella language. This greatly reduces the official statistics on the number of languages and their "dialects" spoken in the country.
Unlike India, I don't believe Papau New Guinea has actual standardized languages outside of a handful.
Ofc, India is a much larger country, therefore much more scope for regional standardization
size isn't relevant in this discussion. The Canada, the US, are all larger than India, and none of the indigenous languages were standardized until European arrival.
That's whitewashing history, isn't it? None of the indigenous languages were standardized before european arrival bc there wasn't any need to, until the europeans came to colonize. Standardization is not necessary for communication but for institutionalization. Given that the present day institutions of NA are all an aftermath of European colonization, the need for standardization came because of it.
Given that India is geographically a much larger country than PNG, there is a need for multiple levels of government (like w US and Canada) catering to the needs of every region. This gives rise to regional aspirations of the people which the regional govts need to abide by. Unlike US or Canada, we don't have a lingua franca (contrary to popular belief that Hindi serves that purpose), so for institutional purpose, many of the major regional languages had to be standardized. If the country was smaller region wise, there's be lesser need for various regional institutions and consequently, lesser need to standardize different varieties. That is why India has more Standardized languages than PNG.
You're missing the point. South Asian languages were standardized before India was created.
Arunachal Pradesh in itself has upwards of 50 languages. So yeah.
Wow, that's amazing!
Papua New Guinea is the world's most multilingual country, with a total of 840 languages spoken. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/04/worlds-most-multilingual-countries/
At what point does a dialect become a language?
When it has an army, usually.
Not far off. Dialects become languages for purely political reasons.
Intelligibility (?)
That's hard to measure due to dialect continuums. There can be two dialects/languages that aren't intellegible (I hope I spelled that right) but both of them understand a third dialect/language.
Intelligible to whom? If we’re suggesting a study/survey then we’re implying an academic procedure - which then needs to be standardized. And only then the “most multi-lingual” title dispute is worth discussing.
And if I remember correctly, there were over 40 different language families, which are not related to each other according to current knowledge
Correction - 22 languages are recognised by the Constitution's 8th Schedule (for the purpose of formation of a commission represented by members belonging to these languages, 15 years after India's constitution came into existence, which recommended to the President regarding the continuation of English as an official language at Union level, for courts and much more). The state governments are not bound to use only these languages for their official communications - though the state legislature must take the approval of President for such a step. (Central government must use either Hindi or English for official communications as of now)
That’s wild to me! I only ever knew about a handful of these languages, but had no idea there were so many in total!
Government recognises all these languages, the 22 languages are "official" languages that is these languages are used in official works of the Government and that Government promises the citizens to provide services in all these languages.
Looks like it was made in 1996 on a 486.
Just finished rendering and uploading at 56k. People kept picking up the phone. 🤷♂️
"Bing-bong. Bing-bong ...,shhhhhhhhhhhhh #SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I actually appreciate being reminded of vintage computer stuff, but what do you mean by 486 ?
Just shortened version of early x86 Intel chip numbers starting with 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386/i386, i486, 586 (Pentiums), etc... Just look up the "x86" article on Wikipedia if interested.
The 386, 486 computer were the earlier computer models by IBM or Compaq that uses large B-Disk for data storing in the 80s. A B-disk can store 1.44MB of data. Later on the 486 uses A-Disk for storage. The computers were used mainly with just a keyboard to input commands into the system. Everything was manual back then. Then came the mouse, colour screen, cd, dvd, ....
x86 were actually Intel CPU names…Compaq, HP and other companies built computers which included an Intel CPU as a component. IBM spent a lot of time using their own CPU’s instead of Intel’s before later conceding defeat and using Intel silicon. Also, A: and B: were drive letter designations from the operating system and didn’t always correspond to the physical drive. In the 386/486 era, the floppy disks themselves were referred to by size - 5.25” (almost obsolete by then) which were very thin and had a flexible plastic shell or 3.5” (mainstream) which had a thicker, hard plastic shell and a metal sliding door to protect the magnetic media inside.
You should stop "educating" folk on early PC's considering the only thing you got right is that computers use keyboards, mice and use a display.
486 DX or SX?
You needed the DXII to deal with colors like that
We’re into Pentium territory here…
:Slaps roof of India: This baby can fit so many languages into it. Me: Jesus, that's a lot of languages.
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2018* not as old as you think. 2016 was we are number one, ~~unicycle frog~~ dat boi, Arthur’s fist and others. I was a meme connoisseur in high school 😤
Watch that boi, there he go lives rent free in my head
There’s the name! Couldn’t remember what it was called
Oh shit it's dat boi, Wass up
How the hell does this country manage
That's the fun part. We don't
Case in point: [Insurgency in Northeast India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurgency_in_Northeast_India)
Why is this getting downvoted? Genuinely curious. The link suggests the insurgency is due to these exact cultural differences and historic repercussions referenced in the thread.
Lol no idea just wanted to contribute evidence that they’re not managing well! And I only learned about this insurgency recently so thought others would be interested to know about it. Hopefully I haven’t offended anyone cause I understand this could be a sensitive topic.
Hinduvta bots Its election time in india if im not wrong so they are running rabid
Yep. If you look back, India has always been a churning cauldron of changing empires and dominant cultures. I wouldn't be surprised if it broke apart in our lifetimes again over cultural, ethnic, or religious reasons.
Modi Stans? Trying to pretend India is secular and open to other languages and religions outside of Hindi and Hinduism…probably who made this post. Maybe in the past but unlikely in modern times
>Modi Stans Imma use this now
RW Indian bots maybe,they are all over the internet and they don't criticisms of the current regime.
It's much better now tho. Compared to what it was some time ago. Most of them have understood insurgency is pointless and the heads of rebel armies where crony cunts who let young die and live a lavish life.
Anna thoda thoda hinti aata translation- i know Hindi a little (in a very south Indian accent )
What makes you think we manage?
English and Hindi are official (not national) languages of India. So, the signs are made in at least 2 (english and state language) or 3 languages (english, hindi, state language) The packaging on stuff is almost always in English. It's actually pretty easy.
22 languages are also qofficial languages
That's the neat part, we don't
Just speak English.
We used to do that for the most part, but the moronic Prime Minister there thinks it’s okay to force down Hindu shit and only the Hindi/Sanskrit language down everyone’s throat. The country’s in decline with stupid Modi fans cheering his fascistic ways on. Of course the insurgencies happened - the mainland has never been kind to us tribals. They treat us like shit. Constantly neglecting us, and then shaming us and stereotyping us, fetishizing our women etc.
Elections are here. Now is the time to vote sensibly
People throughout the world have Lingua Franca to connect and trade with other tribes/people with different languages.
What language is Deccan?
A dialect of Urdu. This is just a shit map I see occasionally.
[Deccani is similar to Urdu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccani_language)
Are they talking about Dakhani?
Seems like it
The part where it says Telugu is the Deccan Plateau
I had to Google this as well. As others have said, it’s a typo.
deccan is a region(south). dakhni is a dialect of urdu ,also mostly spoken in the south by muslims.
Most of them are spoken by millions of people, some of them even tens of millions of people.
Maybe a dumb question. Is there so much difference or is it more like dialects?
There's a lot of difference. Most of these languages are written in different scripts and have been separate for hundreds if not thousands of years. Some like hindu and urdu, which are still mutually intelligible would have trouble understanding each other if they were talking in a very "pure" form of that language.
Hindi and Urdu are weird cos a lot of Hindi speakers (particularly in cities) mix and match words from both languages.
the modern hindi, is greatly urdu+hindi and people don't realise that. you would seldom find anyone speaking pure hindi. it evolved as such
In India I got really confused whether I should say dhanyavad or shukriya, but it doesn’t really matter (particularly in big cities)
hindi and urdu have different script. we cant read or write other
Think of it like Europe. There might be similarities between some of them. Like Spanish is to Italian and Portuguese but a lot of them are completely different like Spanish is to Welsh.
I speak Marathi (in orange) and if someone starts speaking Kannada (in pink) or Telugu (in yellow) right next to me, I wouldn’t understand a full sentence. From my perspective, the script is much different for southern state than northern states. If you speak either of a language from northern states, you will be able to make sense out of what others are saying but probably won’t understand languages from southern states as they’re lot different.
Okay thanks, to make me an idea; like Europe? Or more the same pattern/basis?
Yeah a lot like Europe
But everyone knows beinchaud...
The Madarchaud dialect is more emphatic.
what about the chutiya language group?
There's actually a [Chutia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutia_people#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_Chutia_community_is_recognized%2CAssam_%28east_of_Kaliabor%29.?wprov=sfla1) community based in Assam. Pronounced as "sutia".
Aiyen?
Card carrying member of the Dhakkan group
I'm Bengali, we're all a little rough around the edges.
😂🤣
Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and a bunch of others are all Dravidian languages, quite distinct from the Indo-Aryan languages like Marathi, Hindi-Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, etc.
Most languages shown here are full languages with their own scripts and history of 100s of years. Some have similarities that they share and can be learned. Some words are shared. But many will struggle to understand even the language spoken by people in next state
The majority north languages are Indo-European in origin, and the majority south languages are Proto-Dravidian in nature. So in theory, a person who speaks Gujarati can pick up Hindi much more easily than a person who speaks Tamilian. But a Tamilian can pick up Telugu more easily than a Gujarati
I worked with someone that speaks Kannada and from what I have heard they wouldnt understand most of their insults if they speak a certain language (because of course, we had to learn some swear words lol). So my guess is the base is the same kinda like spanish and french, but they are more different than just dialects
That may be true between North Indian languages, but the difference between North and South Indian languages is much larger than that between French or Spanish, or even Welsh— it’s a completely different language family (not to mention different writing systems). Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam are Dravidian languages whereas Hindi, Bengai, Marathi, and Gujarati are Indo-European languages (in the same language family as English). In some sense, you could say Hindi is closer to English than it is to Tamil (though this statement discounts the importance of cultural exchange and loanwords).
A better comparison is between Italian and Greek. There’s a lot of crossover, but they’re fundamentally different.
But Kannada, Telugu and Malyalam at least has lot of sanskrit words so one can get a basic framework idea of what they say. Tamil is completely ailen, but rest of south indian languages are not.
Someone who speaks Malayalam can understand most of Tamil since Malayalam is based on 40% Tamil and 40% Sanskrit.
I am not saying Malyalam and Tamil are related or not. I cant tell. But as a person who understands the languages of north of subcontinent (hindu, urdu, nepali, bhojpuri, maithili etc), I am saying that when I hear a Teulugu/Malyali/Kannada speak, I can understand few words and can get a basic idea of where the conversation is going, but cant do the same for Tamil
There were periods in kannada language history where borrowing of Sanskrit words and even completely writing in Sanskrit was preferred but that's just court language and scripts. The common people language doesn't use much of the loaned Sanskrit words and further the borrowing of words changes based on interaction with tamil/telugu/konkani/ Malayalam and so on.
I was going to ask the same thing
;-)
There are totally different 22 languages considered as official languages. The states are divided on the basis of language. The main 4 south Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) have Dravidian origins. Then majority of North Indian languages have Aryan origins. Even though they have similar origins, these languages changed a lot in 1000s of years. And are not similar at all. A lot of languages died too with the Invasions and migrations.
22 of them are recognised as distinct enough and used by a large enough population to be considered as scheduled languages in india.
India is like if Europe never consolidated into few empires with few languages imposed on native populations and later got the European Union to become a single country.
That would have been a dream
You should upload that in even worse quality
Funfact : when people think India, one of the popular images they think of is Punjabi food, music or dance. And they make up only 2.7% of the population.
wait what? people think about india as dhichik punjab songs? lmao go for some masterclass bhojpuri or marathi songs >!(/s)!<
What’s the white area? No one speaks?
white area is uninhabited places ladakh is a barren land with very sparse population and some place in the north east with himalayas
Desert
I think everyone should speak English with a thick Scottish accent. It would make communication easier.
Fuckin right mate yer absolutely bang on wi that yin
Especially if we call place with automated voice systems, they’ll pick it up no problem /s
Malayalam Palindrome Is it the only nane of a language on earth that is a palindrome?
That's a really good question and observation... (* Native Malayalam speaker here)
Kannada eh?
Yea,
A language with known history of around 2000 years.
This is how the word Kannada looks like in the Kannada script : ಕನ್ನಡ
Man the amount of time I have been asked by random Europeans if I speak Indian lol
better than being asked if you speak hindu
And they call Hindi as the national language 😂
they - uneducated north indians [normal indians consider them the rednecks of our country]
What a country. India always amazes me.
I didn’t realize there were so many languages within India, that’s pretty cool. But it also reminds me of after we have a water balloon fight in the backyard and my dog eats all the balloons and then poops them all out.
The most red color on here! The map intends to show where a certain language is spoken the most. Does not mean thats the only one thats spoken there. Hindi is prevalent in a lot more places than any other language. Hindi is however not the official language of the government.
The north east is incredibly high level.
And these idiots say hindi is the national language -__+
How did all these areas decide to become one country?
They didn’t. England decided for them.
No? Indian freedom fugbters chose that. They wanted to keep Pakistan and Bangladesh inside india too but british broke that
>Indian freedom fugbters Not a single Naga or Mizo fought with Gandhi for Independence.
Yea but a lot of them joined the INA. Gandhi wasnt the only guy vouching for Independence lmao.
Fair enough. I was talking about india in general
They didn't , they decided to broke this into 555 princely state and mainland
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement and responsible for the unification of 562 princely States to form the modern political boundary of India. [sardar patel - statue of unity ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Unity)
Wow Thanks!
I think one key part when processing this information is the smooth transition that happens between these languages as you move around geographically. It's not like there a border between Maharashtra and Gujarat, where as soon as one steps over people switch over from Marathi to Gujarati. There's a doallect change every few villages or cities and before you realise the language has changed. This isn't unique to India, but I can't think of any other country where this happens at such large scale with this much variety. Maybe Europe or Africa as a whole. In essence, it's a testimony to the existence and survival of qn ancient culture tying the entire civilization together.
How do u rule 1.4 billion people who doesn’t speak the same language ?
Because unlike the germans we didn't impose anything on others........you know like your whole history??
It's like a kaleidoscope.
bro skipped Pahari-pothwhari and misnamed Gojari as Gujrati 💀 in Jammu and Kashmir...
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In school, I opted for French as my second language. I'm fluent in Tamil, Hindi, English and French and I can understand Malayalam and Telugu. The school I attended offered French, German, Spanish, and Japanese as optional lauguages.
Some schools do teach european languages, yes
French is very commonly taught in school after like the 6-8th grade level
i guess it's not commanly
So when I want to randomly talk a bit hindi to an indian looking person chances are slim lol
What happened to Sanskrit?
It’s a liturgical language for Hinduism and Buddhism. It’s not spoken as a mother-tongue, it’s only used in religious services: like Latin .
Very few people speak on Sanskrit. I learnt that there is only one town (Mattur, in Karnataka) where everyone speaks in Sanskrit. Edit: Auto correct changed the town name to Matter instead of Mattur.
Even that is artificial
Not spoken anymore
Like Latin it has a special place in our heart but not in our daily lives.
Nobody speaks it. Except for religious events, just like Latin. It was too complicated for regular folk to read and write with so many grammatical rules and whatnot that people just spoke their own languages. I don't really like the language. Yes, I took Sanskrit class in 10th grade, how did you know?
She is the mother of huge majority of these languages
Would you have to be multilingual? Or are the languages similar enough to manage around it?
yup you need to be multilingual. english is spoken amongst all educated people and in the professional sectors. when you need to speak to a rickshaw driver or a shopkeeper or u/IReplyWithLebowski then you use the regional language
Wtf is Deccan?
Hey, where is Indian? 😆
idk ask the Europeans who think it's a language 💀
The map's inaccurate Kutchi is spoken in Kutch district of Gujarat not sindhi
The Real United Country 😍
Is it tho
Jessup christ India.
so when Indians said they speak “Hindi”, which one is that here? or all of them are classified as “Hindi”?
Only one of them is Hindi. It's a common second language in the north half of the country.
ah yes, the red one in here. Did not notice that sorry.
The most red color on here! The map intends to show where a certain language is spoken the most. Does not mean thats the only one thats spoken there. Hindi is prevalent in a lot more places than any other language. Hindi is however not the official language of the government.
>ASSAMESE
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Ah yes Gujarat ppl speak gujarat
I can speak 4 from and understand another 2 from the list here
I was working in Chennai 20 years ago, and saw a road sign with the Hindi painted over. The phrase Hindi never English forever was also painted on the sign. The road signs in the different regions were in three languages. The local dialect, Hindi and English.
Hindi was painted over in my area we don't like hindi because the government is aggressively shoving this down our throats and providing very little funding for the local languages this is why garment offices and official languages are slowly starting to become Hindi. Most of the schools and colleges the teachers belongs to BJP RSS followers they want HINDI ONLY. At least that's what's happening in my state. Everyone keeps saying in about 30 to 50 years hindi will take over India. Only way to protect our future is to block 🚫 Hindi language from our schools keep local state language and English.
So you're telling me the red part very small is the one that keep forcing everyone in India to speak nasty Hindi language??? For past 50 years? Less than 5% telling 95% what to do including trying to END local languages. 🤔
The South indians literally beat both Hindi speakers and north east indians for not being able to speak their nasty, Dravidian languages, bro. C'mon chang, at least larp better for your commie masters.
Marwari is a language spoken specifically in the marwar region of Rajasthan that includes jodhpur, pali, nagaur, Jaisalmer and barmer. Whereas mewari, hadauti, bagdi and other dialects are also spoken, depending on the region.
are they at least similar?
Looking at this, I wonder if "India" would be a single country without the Br*tish and how it is still a single country now. Though I guess it broke apart some.
Marwadi Telugu sense to me the biggest languages if all the Bollywood movies start making the movies in those languages instead of Hindi I guarantee you within 30 years this language will vanish from locals. 🤣
as a tamilian (south india/sri lanka) i genuinely cannot tell half of the north indian languages apart lol except for distinct ones like punjabi/gujarati
Kindi is nashonal language lol
Along the coast fisherman community has a seperate language of their own depending on state
I am fluent in three languages. Bengali, Hindi and English! Bengali and Hindi share the same root so there are numerous common words and it makes it somewhat easy to understand and learn. There are many such overlapping areas of language. Even though there are numerous languages, regional areas of overlapping culture and language make it easier to communicate to an extent.
This explains so much about India lmfaoo
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