Navigating the landscape of languages in India and its growth over the years
The first thing one needs to gather about India’s linguistic landscape is that it’s very difficult to speak about an ‘Indian language’ as if there were only a single one. The odds of proper communication between two unknown citizens of India stand at 36% though it depends heavily on their ethnicity and place of birth. Throughout the timelines, defining the languages utilized in India has been a very challenging job since professionals have to compartmentalize between local languages that share many correlations. This is not exactly surprising given that- · India happens to be the seventh-largest country worldwide · 1.3+ billion people as citizens · There is a vast distance between North India and South India which makes it harder to channel languages and their infusions. A census carried out in 2011 picturized that India comprises of 19,000+ dialects and languages, of which nearly 1,369 are regarded as dialects and a mere 100+ are identifi