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sjiveru t1_irt69ta wrote on October 10, 2022 at 9:08 PM

Reply to comment by PM_ME_A_PLANE_TICKET in TIL according to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages by Sistermateriial

Yeah, this seems to be using a very permissive definition of 'language'. Ethnologue - which at least tries to do things on a purely scientific basis - counts on the order of 600 or so languages in India.