• Dr. Moose
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    81 year ago

    Not to take away from this but often these 4 are very similar languages that could be easily interpreted as dialects if not the identity politics.

      • panCat
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        21 year ago

        Well most indian languages are not even mutually intelligible so idk if its about identity politics or what not !

    • It is complicated. India has at least four language families - Indo-European, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan. So Hindi (I-E) is closer related to English or Greek than to Tamil (Dra), Santali (AA) or Zeme (S-T). While it is rare for people to speak languages belonging to all four families, I know at least three people who can passably speak six languages from two or three families.