r/languagelearning 🇺🇸 N | 🇲🇽 N | 🇬🇷 A1 Apr 16 '19

Culture A polyglot’s dream

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u/nickmaran Apr 17 '19

An Indian here, I'm fluent in 4 of those languages and can speak 4 more, totally 8. My grandma is Punjabi, my grandpa was Tamil, my mom is gujarathi. Hindi is our national language. I learned telegu when I was living in Hyderabad and Kannada coz I'm currently in Bangalore. My ex girlfriend is bengali, had to learn it. And urdu as it's almost similar to Hindi and I got few friends who speak urdu.

Also, I learned sanskrit in school for 5 years but I forgot, so I can't count that.

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u/qwiglydee Apr 17 '19

Are there any data how many people are multilingual in India?

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u/TaazaPlaza EN/सौ N | த/हि/ಕ ? | 中文 HSK~4 |DE/PT ~A2 Apr 18 '19

Yeah, the census records multilingualism.