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Indian languages

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Indian languages

      languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent. The languages of the region are generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic (Muṇḍā in particular), and Sino-Tibetan. Fourteen languages are mentioned in the constitution of India: Hindi, Urdū, Punjābī, Bengali, Oṛiyā, Marāṭhī, Gujarātī, Sanskrit, and Assamese, all belonging to the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European; Kashmirī, belonging to the Dardic group of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European; and Telugu, Tamil, Kannaḍa (or Kanarese), and Malayālam, belonging to the Dravidian language family. The Manipurī language of Assam and the Newārī language of Nepal are usually classified, along with languages of the Bodo group, as belonging to the Tibeto-Burman branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Among the Muṇḍā languages (classified as a branch of the Austro-Asiatic language family), Santhālī and Khāsī have the most speakers.

      Languages used in Pakistan include the Sindhī, Punjābī, and Urdū languages, which belong to the Indo-Aryan group, and Brāhūī, which is a Dravidian language. Bengali is the language of Bangladesh. See Indo-Aryan languages; Indo-Iranian languages.

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