GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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121
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22
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36
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -They include, besides Sanskrit, the following 21 modern Indian languages: Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Santali, Sindhi, and Urdu.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to the 2011 linguistic census data released in 2018, there are more than 19, 500 languages and dialects spoken as mother tongues in India. These 19, 500 languages were further grouped into 121 categories of mother tongue after linguistic scrutiny and rationalising.
Detailed explanation-3: -There are total 270 identifiable mother tongues which have returned 10, 000 or more speakers each at the all-India level, comprising 123 mother tongues grouped under the scheduled languages and 147 mother tongues grouped under the non-scheduled languages.