2006-11-25 13:34:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
India is said to have about a thousand languages and/or dialects.
It has 23 official languages.
India is home to two major linguistic families: Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families. The Indian constitution recognises 23 official languages.[14] Hindi and English are used by the Union Government of India for official purposes, wherein Hindi has a de jure priority. Sanskrit and Tamil enjoy classical language status in India.[15] The number of dialects in India is as high as 1,652.[16] - wikipedia
2006-11-25 13:39:08 · answer #1 · answered by sonyack 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Until recently, America and Canada both had a large number of native American languages, but these are rapidly becoming extinct as young people move to the cities and speak English. If you only count languages in everyday use, spoken by people who can't speak a national language like English or Spanish, probably one of the following countries would qualify; Brazil, India, Nigeria or Papua New Guinea.
2006-11-25 13:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has to be India. If you include minor languages, it goes over 100.
Although some of the languages are called "tribal" or "aboriginal", their populations may be larger than those that speak some European languages. For example, Bhili and Santali, both tribal languages, each have more than 4 million speakers. Gondi is spoken by nearly 2 million people. India's schools teach 58 different languages. The nation has newspapers in 87 languages, radio programmes in 71, and films in 15.
2006-11-25 13:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by eric l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are some 120 to 175 languages in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. (wikipedia)
2015-02-07 23:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its one and only India, 23 official Languages and more than 1200 languages spoken around the rural life of india.
2006-11-25 23:54:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
England
2006-11-25 13:37:04 · answer #6 · answered by Emily S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think of maximum folk in worldwide places different than the U. S. understand extra advantageous than one language, yet i could be keen to wager that there are extra human beings from different worldwide places residing in the U. S. than in the different u . s . a ., subsequently the U. S. has the main important variety of languages (even in spite of the undeniable fact that not spoken via the vast majority of the folk right here)
2016-12-29 12:04:48 · answer #7 · answered by dustman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India. Many of world's language had their origin in Sanskrit, the original language of the Aryans in India.
2006-11-25 15:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by curious 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course india, with 18 official language which has their individual script and slang.unofficially it has over 1800 languages.
2014-04-07 06:17:24 · answer #9 · answered by முகில்-MUGIL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it is number of languages which originated n are endemic to a country it is india
if by emigration USA n UK may get da top spot due to its multicultural background which gives way to linguistic differences
2006-11-25 15:46:10 · answer #10 · answered by muwahhid r 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋