What language is spoken in India?

India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world.

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Which language is mostly spoken in India?

Hindi, with over 528 million native speakers was the most spoken language across Indian homes, followed by Bengali with 97 million speakers, as of 2011 census data. English native speakers accounted for about 260 thousand during the measured time period.
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Does everyone in India speak Hindi?

According to the 2011 Census of India, 43.63% of the population listed Hindi as their first language. While this is indeed the largest group of persons to speak a particular language as their first, with Bengali coming a distant second at 8.3%, it is not the majority.
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How many language are spoken in India?

The Linguistic Recognition

They include, besides Sanskrit, the following 21 modern Indian languages: Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Santali, Sindhi, and Urdu.
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Do they speak English or Hindi in India?

528 million speak Hindi as a first language. It is both the most widely spoken first as well as second language in India, while English is just the 44th most widely spoken first language even though it is the second-most widely spoken second language.
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The *Many* Languages of INDIA!



Why Indian speak English so fast?

Metabolism - India being a hot temperature country for the most part means, generally speaking Indian residents have higher metabolism than westerners. Higher metabolism means higher energy, and most activities, including speaking, Indians do are usually faster than northerners/westerners.
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Which language is most spoken in the world?

The most spoken languages in the world
  1. English (1,132 million speakers) Native speakers: 379 million. ...
  2. Mandarin (1,117 million speakers) ...
  3. Hindi (615 million speakers) ...
  4. Spanish (534 million speakers) ...
  5. French (280 million speakers) ...
  6. Arabic (274 million speakers) ...
  7. Bengali (265 million speakers) ...
  8. Russian (258 million speakers)
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Which country has the most language?

Papua New Guinea is the most multilingual country, with over 839 living languages, according to Ethnologue, a catalogue of the world's known languages. The site ranked countries and territories based on the number of languages spoken as a first language within their borders.
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What is the mother of all languages?

COIMBATORE: The Tamil language is older than Sanskrit and is "the mother of all languages in the world," said Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday.
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What is the main religion in India?

While 94% of the world's Hindus live in India, there also are substantial populations of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and adherents of folk religions. For most Indians, faith is important: In a 2015 Pew Research Center survey, eight-in-ten Indians said religion is very important in their lives.
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What is the oldest language in the world?

World's oldest language is Sanskrit. The Sanskrit language is called Devbhasha. All European languages ​​seem inspired by Sanskrit. All the universities and educational institutions spread across the world consider Sanskrit as the most ancient language.
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Which is the sweetest language in India?

There can't be any doubt that Bengali is a sweet language. Now, it has been accepted that it is indeed the sweetest,” said Ray. According to twitter messages, the formal announcement could come on Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary in May.
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Which is the hardest language in the world?

1. Mandarin Chinese. Interestingly, the hardest language to learn is also the most widely spoken native language in the world. Mandarin Chinese is challenging for a number of reasons.
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Which is the easiest language in India?

Overall Bengali has the easiest grammar – no genders for inanimate objects (like tree, hand, clock etc) and consistent verb conjugations and a vocabulary very similar to that of Hindi. For a person with no prior knowledge of any Indian language Bengali would be at the top of this list.
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What are the top 5 languages spoken in India?

10 Most Spoken Languages in India by Number of Speakers
  1. Hindi - 52.83 crore speakers. ...
  2. Bengali - 9.72 crore speakers. ...
  3. Marathi - 8.30 crore speakers. ...
  4. Telugu - 8.11 crore speakers. ...
  5. Tamil - 6.90 crore speakers. ...
  6. Gujarati - 5.54 crore speakers. ...
  7. Urdu - 5.07 crore speakers. ...
  8. Kannada - 4.37 crore speakers.
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Which country has only one language?

According to the online reference Wikipedia, half the countries of the world have official languages. Some have only one official language, such as Albania, France, Germany and Lithuania.
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What language has the prettiest writing *?

Arabic. When it comes to the most beautiful written language, Arabic has to be a strong contender. The beautiful cursive script has an inherent artfulness to it.
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What language has the prettiest writing?

The 12 Most Beautiful Written Language Scripts in the World
  1. Devanagari.
  2. Chinese.
  3. Burmese.
  4. Traditional Mongolian.
  5. Tibetan.
  6. Sinhala.
  7. Balinese. Not only is the Balinese script beautiful, but it's also thought to have some extra “holy powers” by some. ...
  8. Arabic. Arabic is famous for its written form.
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What is the easiest language to learn?

And The Easiest Language To Learn Is…
  1. Norwegian. This may come as a surprise, but we have ranked Norwegian as the easiest language to learn for English speakers. ...
  2. Swedish. ...
  3. Spanish. ...
  4. Dutch. ...
  5. Portuguese. ...
  6. Indonesian. ...
  7. Italian. ...
  8. French.
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What are the 3 most popular languages?

The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World
  1. Chinese — 1.3 Billion Native Speakers. ...
  2. Spanish — 471 Million Native Speakers. ...
  3. English — 370 Million Native Speakers. ...
  4. Hindi — 342 Million Native Speakers. ...
  5. Arabic — 315 Million Native Speakers. ...
  6. Portuguese — 232 Million Native Speakers. ...
  7. Bengali — 229 Million Native Speakers.
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What is the easy language to learn?

Of these, Spanish and Italian are the easiest for native English speakers to learn, followed by Portuguese and finally French.
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In which country English is not spoken?

These include China, The Gambia, Malawi, Colombia, Swaziland, Brazil, Russia, Argentina, Algeria, Uganda, Yemen, Chile and Tanzania.
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Do Chinese know English?

According to some estimates, fewer than 10 million Chinese, or less than 1% of the population, speak English. In Hong Kong, a special administrative region, English is an official language; about 50% of the population speak it, though most in that category would not consider themselves fluent.
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Which person speaks the best English in the world?

According to a new report by EF Education First, an international education company, Northern Europeans are the most fluent (the Netherlands tops the rankings, followed by Sweden, Norway and Denmark). Middle Easterners are the least proficient (Iraq, Kuwait, Oman and Saudi Arabia all rank near the bottom).
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