South Asia Language Map
States and language map of India
Sitting on border line, my thought and Q for this post is: Could India be included in the Forest of the South in this article A Sword from the South?
Language | Total speakers (millions) |
---|---|
Hindi | 615 |
Bengali | 265 |
Urdu | 170 |
Punjabi | 126 |
Marathi | 95 |
Telugu | 93 |
Tamil | 81 |
Gujarati | 61 |
Kannada | 56 |
Odia | 38 |
Malayalam | 38 |
Assamese | 15 |
Santali | 7 |
Meitei (Manipuri) | 1.7 |
Sanskrit | 0.025 |
English Speakers in India 128,539,090 (as first and second language), from Wikipedia
From Wikipedia: Recently, the Indian government has claimed that in 2013, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal experienced [ideological] “influence” of “Left Wing Extremism”; while claiming that armed activity by the “Left Wing” extremists was noticed in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal.
My thought and Q for this post is: Could India be included in the Forest of the South in this article A Sword from the South?