The *Many* Languages of INDIA!

Finally a foreigner who knows that people from India don't speak Indian 😆😆😆

meanwhile some Americans i want to learn indian

I'm from Mizoram.My native languages is Mara ,our tribe has 5 different languages, but I spoke only three Tlosaih,Chapi and Hawthai.If I talked to other mizo tribe I used Mizo(Duhlian).When I went outside my state I used English,Hindi,Assamese and a little bit of Bengali.

I'm maharashtrian and now I'm feeling like marathi is the languages that connect north and south India...

I'm a South indian.. my native language is Malayalam.. I speak Malayalam , Tamil , Kannada ,Telugu, Hindi and English .. Im comfortable in all the Dravidian languages plus English and hindi

The most important thing to know: "Indian" is not a language. It's so annoying when people ask me "you speak Indian?"

I am Bengali, but My Family and I are/ am fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Telugu , thanks to the fact that we lived in those States in India..

I am from Germany (speak German, English and French) and I'm learning Marathi (and Farsi, so I have also noticed the many loan words from Farsi). Marathi is such a beautiful language! At one point I want to learn a Dravidian language too, probably Tamil. But for now I'm concentrating on Marathi.

All Indians are either bilingual or trilingual.

Fun fact :- those 22 recognised official languages have different accents too LoL

I’m a South Indian Muslim living in Mumbai. I fluently speak Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Arabic and Spanish. I mostly used them in the different circle of friends and family, but mostly during my travels.

So many tongues and yet we the people of India are Indians first and then the people of our states🇮🇳🇮🇳 "मेरा भारत महान"

I am from India in Kerala.. my native language is Malayalam 🙆🙆🙆🙆🙆

In Kerala all 14 districts have their own dielects. And sometimes even we can't understand eachother 😂.

I’m Nepali & Indian. My mom speaks Nepali, Hindi, Limbu (a little), Punjabi, & English My dad speaks Nepali, Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Urdu, English, & other. My grandma speaks more languages though; so far I know that she speaks Nepali, Hindi, Bengali, & Assamese

Lol, I'm from Finland and consider myself quite educated with good general knowledge and I always thought most Indians can speak English and Hindi. I mean, I thought Hindi is the language the whole India uses for communication but oh boy I was so wrong 😂I found out that in India people may speak different language in the next city or province and peple can't many times really understand each other 😁 and somewhere in Southern India people don't even know Hindi but their own languages. The population of Finland is about 5,5 million people (smaller than in Indias biggest cities) and here we all speak the same language so the idea of a country where people speak tens of languages and can't understand each other is so weird for me.

Foreigners: You are from India, Do you speak Indian? Me : 😶

This is an incredible summary of Indian languages. As someone with a background in linguistics who specifically study South Asian languages, I can really vouch for the accuracy of this video, and I love the fact that you never make generalizations and recognize the incredibly diversity of India. This is a level of summarization of research that is very unexpected for a YouTube video.

I'm from Bihar, Mother tongue is Magadhi (what parents and grandparents used to use). My family speaks Hindi (and can communicate with majority of North Indians in Hindi), English (language of communication in profession, and with many South Indian friends) and a bit of Sanskrit (taught in school for few years).

I love all Indian languages and my mother tongue is தமிழ் (Tamil). Tamil one of the longest surviving classical language in World . Tamil has the unique distinction of remaining a spoken language for more than 4000 years. Among the oldest languages of the world - Hebrew, Greet, Sanskrit, Chinese and Tamil, only Tamil and Chinese are the two living languages. Tamil is spoken by around 60 million people in India and by about 40 Tamil million people living in Sri Lanks, Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius, United Kingdom, US and many European countries. Tamil has voluminous literature that are thousands of years old and that have been preserved and printed even now. The oldest literature of Tamil ‘Tholkappiyam’ that is ancient to Vedas . Everybody should try reading திருக்குறள் ( Tirukkural).Considered one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality, it is known for its universality and secular nature. Love from Tamil Nadu to all our Indian languages 🇮🇳.வாழ்க தமிழ் வளர்க இந்திய 💥.