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The Language Families of India
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The many languages of India belong to five distinct language families. These are:

  1. Indo-European, primarily represented by its subgroup, Indo-Aryan (23 languages)

  2. Dravidian (17)

  3. Austroasiatic (14)

  4. Sino-Tibetan, represented by its subgroup, Tibeto-Burman (65)

  5. Afro-Asiatic (formerly known as the Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic), represented by its subgroup, S…

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