Thursday, November 29, 2007

India -a multi lingual country

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
India is a multilingual country
one billion speakers
28 states and in 7 union territories
114 languages and 216 mother tongues
scheduled languages 18 ( 96.29%)
non-scheduled 96 (3.17% )
How many languages are in India?
105? 325? 1652?
there are many numbers and there is no uniform total. Why it is so? It is all because of the
Lack of systematic surveys and moreover the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and dialects were created such enormous variation.

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