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How many language families exist in India?

How many language families exist in India? Correct Answer Four

India has remarkably diversified based on languages. The linguistic pluralism in the country is just as complex to understand as its religious pluralism.  Like there are many sects and other syncretic alternatives to a given religion, similarly, there are variations to all significant languages of India, based on region, ethnicity, and the language family to which they belong. The Census of India, 2011 mark out some 57 regional and other variations of the Hindi language. The languages of India can be classified into four major families –

  1. Dravidian: In the south of India, languages from the Dravidian family are predominant, like Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Toda, Telugu, Kodagri, and Badaga. 
  2. Indo-Aryan: It covers the widest area of the country and is spoken by the largest proportion of its population, especially in the North, East, and West. The root language of this family is Sanskrit and its principal spoken languages include Hindi, Bengali, Bihari, Pahari, Gujarati, Bhili, Rajasthani, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Assamese, and Punjabi.
  3. Tibeto-Burman: In Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim, and the Himalayan regions of Jammu and Kashmir languages from the Tibeto-Burman family are used.
  4. Austro-Asiatic: The population in Meghalaya and some parts Orissa and Bihar uses Austro-Asiatic languages, like Samthali, Bhandari, Koku, Ho, and Savara.

Hence we conclude that there are four language families exist in India.

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II. Yes. Nuclear families ensure greater freedom.