Speak easy
- POSTED ON: 14 Dec, 2019
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- POSTED BY: Nidarshana Raju
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India is a land of many languages and dialects, with more than 19,500 of them. While we know about the famous classical languages such as Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam etc, there are many more which are not so well known. Let’s learn about few of them today:
Odia
Official language of two states, Odia is a classical language, whose inscription dates back to the 10th century AD.
Marathi
Spoken by almost 83.1 million people and projected to be more than 1,300 years old, this language is spoken in more than one dialect and is spoken in Maharastra.
Tulu
A Dravidian language that is spoken by 1.7 million people. The oldest available inscriptions in Tulu are from the period between 14th to 15th century AD.
Mizo
Originally known as ‘Lisho’ it was born from the Sino-Tibetan family. Today, nearly 690,000 people speak Mizo.
Telugu
With almost 75 million native speakers, it is the most widely spoken Dravidian language.
Khasi
With native speakers in India as well as Bangladesh, Khasi has around 1.6 million native speakers and multiple dialects.
Let’s travel around the country and try to speak in different tongues. Drag and drop the languages in their respective states.