On Thu, 2026-06-18 at 12:53 -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Yes, that's what I thought too. And then I found Sanskrit on a list > of languages spoken in India today. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India > -- about 25k speakers of Sanskrit. Blew my mind.
I once read that more than 400 languages are spoken in India. And they have four official languages, that is, languages in which government documents can be written: Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and English. Or "Indish" as some call it. For example (say this with a Hindi accent): "Only in India to you take your car to the body shop to have it dented."
