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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by wizardofmysore on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:35PM (#15573695)
Around 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.
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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by Manishearth on Sunday October 29, 2017 @04:25AM (#15578507)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

No, by the 2001 census it's about 50% of Indians who do not speak Hindi.

I don't see a reason for this fraction to have changed significantly.

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Re:A man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages by ucntseeme on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:55PM (#15573752)
That's still very less than the majority.
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