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Everyone in India speaks the same language

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Census 2011 recorded 121 languages and 270 mother tongues, each spoken by 10,000 or more people, from four major language families.

Myth: There is basically one Indian language.

Fact: Census 2011 recorded 121 languages and 270 mother tongues, each spoken by 10,000 or more people, from four major language families.

Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages are all spoken in India, written in more than a dozen scripts. Many Indians speak two or three languages every day.