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India is called a ‘veritable tower of Babel’ and according to A.R. Desai “India presents a spectacle of museum of tongues.” While the famous linguist Grierson has noted in his “Linguistic Survey of India” that India has 179 languages and 544 dialects. The 1971 census, on the other hand, reported 1652 languages in India as the mother tongue. Most of the languages are spoken in the North India. Not all these languages are however equally distributed, while some of these languages are spoken by crores of people, many of them are tribal speeches and have less than one percent of the speakers of the total population.Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Assamese, Bengali, Oriya, Guajarati, Marathi and Kashmiri belong to the Indo-Aryan speech family. The Dravidian linguistic group includes four Southern languages namely, Tamil, Telegu, Kannada and Malayalam. The tribes of Central India speak Austric languages and the tribes of the North Eastern India speak the Sino-Tibetan languages.Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Punjabi, Bihari, Rajasthani, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi and Kashmiri are included in the Indo- Aryan family. The Dravidian language includes Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada. English, Portuguese and French are included in the European language family. Portuguese and French are mostly spoken by people in Goa and Pondicherry respectively.
Hindi has been accepted as the official language in India, English remains an associate language. The 1991 census figure reveals that Hindi is spoken by 247.85 million people, followed by Telegu which is spoken by 72.08 million. Bengali comes third with 71.78 million. Next comes the Marathi language (67.26 million). 60.60 million people speak Tamil. Urdu and Gujarati are spoken by 46.11 million and 41.37 million people respectively. 35.32 million people speak Malayalam.
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