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  2. List of languages by number of native speakers in India

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    States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...

  3. Languages of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The most widely spoken language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands .

  4. Lists of countries and territories by official language

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    India: Asia 1,367,703,110 [1] Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English. Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India. Pakistan: Asia 220,892,331 [2] Urdu is co-official with English. South Africa: Africa ...

  5. Languages of India - Wikipedia

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    Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians. The most important language families in terms of speakers are: [ 59 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 10 ] [ 60 ]

  6. Indosphere - Wikipedia

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    Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in the Sinosphere tend to be more isolating, while those spoken in the Indosphere tend to be more morphologically complex. [ 12 ] Many languages in the western side of the Sino-Tibetan family , which includes the Tibeto-Burman languages, show significant typological resemblances with other languages of South Asia ...

  7. Languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    The Language families of Asia. Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic.

  8. List of language names - Wikipedia

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    A moribund language spoken in Russia ; Sámi (Ume) – ubmejensámien giella Recognised as a minority language in Sweden, and formerly in Norway ; Samoan – Gagana Sāmoa Official language in: American Samoa and Samoa; Sanskrit – संस्कृतम्, संस्कृता वाक् Official language in: India; Sardinian – Sardu

  9. Languages of South Asia - Wikipedia

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    On a subregional level, Telugu was a language of high culture in South India in precolonial times, [17] while in modern times, Punjabi and Bengali function as major transnational languages connecting the northwestern and eastern regions of India to Pakistan and Bangladesh respectively (see also Punjabiyat).