In Godel Escher Bach, Douglas Hofstadter uses as an example the statement that there are 17 languages in India. He says, it could be false because it depends on your definition of what a language is.
How many other ways could the statement be false?
2006-10-07 13:56:37 · 6 answers · asked by Monso Orda 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
India is a Miltie-language country. there are many states in India.the states are divided on language basis. so India has more languages.
Assam, Bengali,Hindi, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada,Rajastani, Punjabi,and so on. so the statement is real.they are called mother tongues.
2006-10-07 16:01:59 · answer #1 · answered by prince47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution of India recognises 22 "regional languages", spoken throughout the country, namely Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
2006-10-07 23:41:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends indeed on what your definition of a language is but my best guess is that there are many more. Try an ethnologue of India.
2006-10-07 21:35:10 · answer #3 · answered by Michael V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea there ARE 17 different languages and atleast 10 of them are completely different from one another.
some languages are similar because of the script -like hindi and sanskrit....and some are similar in their words(similar not same)-like sanskrit and kannada...usually many languages are derived from sanskrit(even english to an extent) as it was the worlds first language.
2006-10-07 21:00:08 · answer #4 · answered by sup_res 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are lot more than 17 languages i think there are more than 50 if u take into account language spoken in smaller communities
2006-10-11 03:31:58 · answer #5 · answered by YR1947 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would've guessed there are more than that. I guess it it all comes down to the argument of language vs. dialect.
2006-10-07 21:06:52 · answer #6 · answered by Freaked out 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋