India is rich in languages, boasting not only the indigenous sprouting of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan tongues, but of the absorption of Middle-Eastern and European influences as well. Distinct, often ancient, and rich literary traditions are to be found in several languages, among them Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, and Urdu, and not to mention two Classical languages of the world, Tamil and Sanskrit. Languages of India - The languages of India. While 22 major languages are recognized a ...

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• Languages of India - The languages of India
• Languages of India - Alphabets of Indian languages
• Languages of India - Phonetic alphabet
• Languages of India - Urdu alphabet
• Languages of India - List of Indian Languages

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Languages of India, Languages of India - The languages of India, Languages of India - Alphabets of Indian languages, Languages of India - Phonetic alphabet, Languages of India - Urdu alphabet, Languages of India - List of Indian Languages

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Indian languages have corresponding distinct alphabets. The two major families are those of the Dravidian languages and those of the Indo-Aryan languages, the former largely confined to the south and the latter to the north. With the exception of Urdu the alphabets of all these languages are native to India. There are those scholars who believe the scripts of the Northern languages (like Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi and Punjabi) to be distant derivations of the Aramaic alphabet, though this is a disputed theory primarily because the number and grouping of sounds and letters are so radically different.< ...

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Languages of India, Languages of India - The languages of India, Languages of India - Alphabets of Indian languages, Languages of India - Phonetic alphabet, Languages of India - Urdu alphabet, Languages of India - List of Indian Languages

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Bhili is a Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India, in the region east of Ahmadabad. Other names for the language include Bhagoria, Bhil, Bhilbari, Bhilboli, Bhilla, Lengotia, and Vil. Bhili is a member of the Bhil language family, which are related to Gujarati and the Rajasthani languages. The language is written using a variation of the Devanagari script. See also. Languages of India List of national languages of Indi ...

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The Magadhi language (also known as Magahi) is a language of India. Magadhi is closely related to Bhojpuri and Maithili and these languages are sometimes referred to as a single language, Bihari. These languages, together with several other related languages, are known as the Bihari languages, which form a sub-group of the Eastern Zone group of Indo-Aryan languages. Magadhi has as approximately 13 million speakers. It is spoken primarily spoken in the Magadh area of Bihar state. This area includes Patna, Gaya, Nalanda, Rajgir, ...

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• Magadhi language - External link

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Awadhi is an Indian language, often considered a dialect of Hindi, spoken in the Awadh (Oudh) region of Uttar Pradesh. Its speakers are also found in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Nepal. It is the dialect in which the Raamcharitmaanas of Tulsidaas and other important works of Hindi literature are written. It is spoken by at least 2,000,000 people. See also. Languages of India List of national languages of India List of Indian languages by total speakers ...

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Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people. As ...

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• Assamese language - Formation of Assamese
• Assamese language - Writing
• Assamese language - Phonetics
• Assamese language - Dialects
• Assamese language - History
• Assamese language - Early Assamese 6th to 15th century AD
• Assamese language - Middle Assamese 17th to 19th Century AD
• Assamese language - Modern Assamese

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Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is the language of the state of Kerala, in southern India. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, spoken by around 30 million people. A person who speaks Malayalam is called a "Malayali" (or rarely, a "Keralite"). It belongs to the family of Dravidian languages. Both the language and its writing system are closely related to Tam ...

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• Malayalam language - Evolution
• Malayalam language - Development of literature
• Malayalam language - The script
• Malayalam language - Language variation and external influence
• Malayalam language - Trivia

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Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ kannaḍa; also, less commonly, Kanarese) is one of the major Dravidian languages of southern India. Speakers of its various dialects number roughly 40 million people. It is the state language of Karnataka, one of the four southern states in India. It is written using the Kannada script. Kannada language - History. Perhaps the olde ...

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• Kannada language - History
• Kannada language - Dialects
• Kannada language - Classification
• Kannada language - Geographic distribution
• Kannada language - Official status
• Kannada language - Kannada script
• Kannada language - Transliteration
• Kannada language - Unicode
• Kannada language - Extinct Kannada Letters
• Kannada language - The Dictionary

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Sanskrit (saṃskṛtam संस्कृतम्) is a classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It has a position in India and Southeast Asia similar to that of Latin and Greek in Medieval Europe, and is a central part of Hindu tradition. Sanskrit is one of the 22 official languages of India. Sanskrit is taught in schools and households th ...

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• Sanskrit - History
• Sanskrit - Vedic Sanskrit
• Sanskrit - Classical Sanskrit
• Sanskrit - European Scholarship
• Sanskrit - Phonology and writing system
• Sanskrit - Vowels
• Sanskrit - Consonants
• Sanskrit - Phonology
• Sanskrit - Pitch
• Sanskrit - Sandhi
• Sanskrit - Script
• Sanskrit - Grammar
• Sanskrit - Grammatical tradition
• Sanskrit - Verbs
• Sanskrit - Verbs: Conjugation
• Sanskrit - Nominal inflection
• Sanskrit - Personal Pronouns and Determiners
• Sanskrit - Compounds
• Sanskrit - Syntax
• Sanskrit - Numerals
• Sanskrit - Influence
• Sanskrit - Modern-day India
• Sanskrit - Interactions with Sino-Tibetan languages
• Sanskrit - Western vogue for Sanskrit
• Sanskrit - Computational linguistics

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Hindi (हिन्दी hindī) is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central India and Western India. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indo-Aryan family, bounded on the northwest and west by Panjābī, Sindhī, and Gujarātī; on the south by Marāthī; on the southeast by Orīya; on the east by Bengālī; and on the north by Nepālī. Hindi also refers to a standardized register of Hindustani that was made one of the official languages of India. The grammatical descript ...

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• Hindi - Area
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• Hindi - History
• Hindi - Standard Hindi
• Hindi - Vocabulary
• Hindi - Dialects
• Hindi - Sounds
• Hindi - Vowels
• Hindi - Consonants
• Hindi - Borrowed sounds
• Hindi - Writing system
• Hindi - Grammar
• Hindi - Word order
• Hindi - Common tenses and aspect
• Hindi - Case
• Hindi - Literature
• Hindi - Common difficulties faced in learning Hindi

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Urdu (اردو) is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family which developed under Persian, Turkish, and Arabic influence in the South Asia during the time of the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). Taken by itself, Urdu is approximately the twentieth most populous natively spoken language in the world, and is the national language of Pakistan as well as one of the 24 national languages of India. However, Urdu is often considered to be part of a wider Hindustani la ...

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• Urdu - Speakers and geographic distribution
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• Urdu - Dialects
• Urdu - Grammar
• Urdu - Levels of formality in Urdu
• Urdu - Politeness
• Urdu - Vocabulary
• Urdu - Writing System
• Urdu - Examples
• Urdu - Literature
• Urdu - Prose
• Urdu - Poetry
• Urdu - History
• Urdu - Urdu and Hindi
• Urdu - Footnote
• Urdu - Bibliography

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While the uses of the words "creole" and "pidgin" usually mix when referring to trade languages, linguists consider them two separate categories. While pidgins are formed as a drastically simplified form of communication between two or more languages (and therefore have no standard grammar or pronunciation), creoles are categorized as a pidgin that has been learned by the children of pidgin-speakers and therefore has a more complex grammar and fixed phonology, syntax, and morphology. Pidgins can become full languages in only a generation, as ...

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• Creole language - Annobonnese
• Creole language - Upper Guinea Creole
• Creole language - Macanese
• Creole language - Kristang
• Creole language - Papiamento
• Creole language - Portuguese/English Creole
• Creole language - Saramaccan
• Creole language - Spanish Creoles

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A Magus (plural Magi, from Latin, via Greek μάγος from Old Persian maguš; Old English: Mage) was a Zoroastrian astrologer-priest from ancient Persia. The best known Magi are the "Wise Men from the East" in the Bible. In English, the term may refer to a shaman, sorcerer, or wizard; it is the origin of the English words magic and magician. Magus - Etymology. Magus - Greek-Persian roots. The Greek word is attested from the 5th century BC (Ancient Greek) a ...

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• Magus - Etymology
• Magus - Greek-Persian roots
• Magus - Greek use of magos
• Magus - English language
• Magus - History in the Persian Empire
• Magus - The Maga in India
• Magus - Fictional magi
• Magus - Games
• Magus - Comics

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(over 5 million speakers but no official status) Awadhi (often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) Bhili (Bhil tribals) Bhojpuri (language of Bihar, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) Bundeli (often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) Chhattisgarhi (language of Chhattisgarh, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) Gondi (Gond tribals) Hariyanavi (Haryanvi) (language of Haryana, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) ...

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List of national languages of India, List of national languages of India - Official languages Central administrative, List of national languages of India - Recognized national languages of India Scheduled list for official use, List of national languages of India - Other popular languages of India

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Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its acronym UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. Uttar Pradesh covers a large part of the densely populated Gangetic plain. It shares an international border with Nepal and is bounded by the Indian states of Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar. The administrative and legislative capital of Uttar Pradesh is Luc ...

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• Uttar Pradesh - Creation
• Uttar Pradesh - Population
• Uttar Pradesh - History
• Uttar Pradesh - Constituent regions
• Uttar Pradesh - Divisions and districts
• Uttar Pradesh - Languages
• Uttar Pradesh - Politics
• Uttar Pradesh - Education
• Uttar Pradesh - Tourism
• Uttar Pradesh - Arts and crafts
• Uttar Pradesh - See Also

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Telugu is mainly spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh and a bit in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharastra, Orissa and Chhattisgarh in India, but it is also spoken in Bahrain, Fiji, Malaysia, Mauritius and the United Arab Emirates where there are large numbers of Telugu speaking expatriates. Telugu speaking Andhras have become a large and successful Indian community in the USA [3]. Telugu language - Official status. Telugu is one of the official languages of India. It is the official language of the state of Andhra Prade ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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In Pakistan, Sindhi is written in a variant of the Arabic script, which was adopted under the encouragement of the British when Sindh fell to the British in the 19th century. It has a total of 52 Arabic-derived letters, accommodating the additional sounds peculiar to Indo-Aryan languages. In India, Sindhi is written in the Devanagari script. ...

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Sindhi language, Sindhi language - Geographical distribution, Sindhi language - History, Sindhi language - Sounds, Sindhi language - Consonants, Sindhi language - Vowels, Sindhi language - Writing system

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Like the other Dravidian languages, but unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, the origins of Tamil are independent of Sanskrit. Tamil has the longest unbroken literary tradition amongst the Dravidian languages. Tamil tradition dates the oldest works to several millennia ago, but the earliest examples of Tamil writing we have today are in inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, which are written in an adapted form of the Brahmi script (Mahadevan, 2003), though many linguists see coded Tamil words in deciphering Indu ...

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Tamil language, Tamil language - History, Tamil language - Classification, Tamil language - Geographic distribution, Tamil language - Legal status, Tamil language - Spoken and literary variants, Tamil language - Dialects, Tamil language - Writing system, Tamil language - Sounds, Tamil language - Vowels, Tamil language - Consonants, Tamil language - Special character, Tamil language - Phonology, Tamil language - Grammar, Tamil language - Parts of speech, Tamil language - Sentence structure, Tamil language - Vocabulary, Tamil language - Examples

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The oldest Telugu inscription is from 633 AD, and its literature begins with an 11th-century translation of the Sanskrit classic Mahabharata. Telugu words appear in the Maharashtri Prakrit anthology of poems (the Gathasaptashathi) collected by the first century BC Satavahana King Hala. Telugu speakers were probably the oldest peoples inhabiting the land between Krishna and Godavari. Andhra society is one of the ancient societies of India. One can encounter several tales about Andhras in epics like Mahabharatam and Ramayanam, in ...

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Telugu language, Telugu language - History, Telugu language - Classification, Telugu language - Geographic distribution, Telugu language - Official status, Telugu language - Dialects, Telugu language - Derived languages, Telugu language - Sounds, Telugu language - Vowels, Telugu language - Consonants, Telugu language - Phonology, Telugu language - Historical sound changes, Telugu language - Grammar, Telugu language - Location, Telugu language - Motion, Telugu language - Morphosyntactic alignment, Telugu language - Relation, Telugu language - Inclusive/Exclusive Pronouns, Telugu language - Vocabulary, Telugu language - Writing system, Telugu language - Examples, Telugu language - Literature in Telugu

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