It is estimated that there are 1652____in india
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1652 is not really the number of major languages in India. This includes all the regional dialects.
The actual officially recognized number is closer to 22 and these are truly major fully developed languages and as different from each other as German, French, Spanish are from each other. These European languages at least share a script. Our Indian regional languages have scripts of their own. A few of them share scripts but most have their own.
Nowadays even English is considered as an Indian language. It is the language of educated elite, the professionals, the courts, business, the gentry and the socially forward people. It takes a back seat only during elections when politicians avoid using it when talking to the masses. English brings money, status and importance but no votes.
Out of these 22 languages, I am familiar with English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and my proficiency decreases rapidly from English to Malayalam.
I can understand Urdu too but since it is not too different from Hindi, I usually don’t add it to my list. I can’t read and write in Urdu in Nastaliq script.
But English and Hindi are the languages I am confident in. I speak a dialect of Tamil as my native language but my knowledge of reading and writing in Tamil is poor. Kannada has been picked up, not learned and I understand it well and can speak well enough to communicate with shop keepers, maid-servants, auto rickshaw drivers and bargain with hawkers, but I cannot carry on a decent conversation in it. I can read and write in Kannada albeit slowly.
Gujarati was learned during childhood in school, and I can read and write and understand it still but am now unable to speak since I have lost contact with the language for over 55 years now.
I picked up some Malayalam from my Grandparents who lived all their lives in Kerala in our native place (Palakkad district), and who were fluent speakers. I can still understand simple conversational Malayalam due to their influence on me during childhood.
I learned French for 4 years in school and have forgotten it completely due to lack of opportunities to use it. I could never speak it. We only learned the basics of grammar and vocabulary and to read and write simple French. But our teacher was a Maharashtrian who could not pronounce it himself and there was no difference in how it sounded when he spoke Marathi and when he spoke French. I now don’t make any claims to know French.
I am not really a polyglot as some believe. I modestly claim to know only two languages, English and Hindi.
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