GEOG 3RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Munda Languages, Pashto, Sacred Language
25 Feb 2015
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Language is an organized system of spoken words by which people communicate with one another with mutual comprehension (have to understand and accept culture and traditions in order to understand languages) Migration and isolation explain how single language can later become two or more. In india 427 (top 4 most linguistically diverse countries in the world) Language families in south asia: indo-european, dravidian, sino-tibetan, austronesian (austric, unclassified andamanese languages, indo-european family. The largest family in south asia (and in the world: about 900 million native speakers, brought in region by the aryans (between 2000 and 1000 b. c. ) Includes indo - iranian group - consists of 2 subgroups: indian and iranian. Top three: hindi (most widely spoken in south asia and 2nd most widely spoken in the world- more than 420 million people ); bengali (more than 200 million people speak); punjabi.
