Originally Posted by Hessah
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Yeah I actually didn't know India has the population of China but in even less land space...
Ashame to say.. but I would've said Indian too even though we have so many Indians in my area.. I guess we kinda got it mixed up to like Italian and French where the nationality is also the language...
Thinking about it more this is interesting, it's like Chinese, is a nationality and a language but the dialect is mandarin and cantonese and shanghaiese etc etc...
So can Indian be the "language" for a collection of all your dialect? or it doesnt work that way at all?
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No, not at all. Almost all of our states speak separate languages. Sometimes, even within the same state different languages are spoken in different areas. Hindi is the most common, but only barely. There are a few languages that are similar-ish like Hindi, Marathi, Gujarathi and Urdu, but they can't really be classified as dialects of the same language.
I guess it's understandable though. I'm not angry or anything, but it's just surprising how little is known about us despite the fact that we're everywhere haha. I'm probably just as ignorant about African languages.