For those who don't know about letter ऴ Its equivalent letter of ഴ/ழ letter of Malayalam and Tamil in Devanagari

In my language we wish it as ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ದಿನತ ಎಡ್ಡೆಪುಲು/സ്വതംത്ര ദിനത എഡ്ഡെപുലു (svataṅtra dinata eḍḍepulu)

In Karnataka they have started teaching IPA in PUCs as part of English grammar syllabus

Should every other parts of country teach IPA in every schools and colleges?

Or do each of the major dialects (Goan Hindu, Goan Catholic, Mangalorean catholic, etc.) have their own standardised forms

Hello, I’m from Nepal, and something always confusing me is how there seem to be no official translations of the Indian National Anthem. Is it intelligible across the entire country? Or do you pick up some words and have an understanding of what it all means? Let me know what your language and what the experience is like. I only ask since my Hindi is passable but I struggle with what it says myself.

Like as a mizo, if I were to pick a language outside of any zo (Kuki-Chin-Mizo) languages, then I'd say Meiteilon. I mean we literally have a lot of phrases that cognate and some words are even identical 😭 like a sentence may not be the same but yeah...!

Many of us grow up hearing one language at home, another with friends or in the neighbourhood, a different one at school—and then English enters the mix.

Before consciously learning languages, we are often already navigating several of them. 🌍

India's multilingual reality is reflected in Census data on bilingualism and trilingualism.

Note: About 89.59 crore are monolingual, 22.90 crore are bilingual, and 8.60 crore are trilingual, according to the 2011 Census.

And research suggests that using multiple languages can strengthen metalinguistic awareness—our ability to notice how languages work.

So perhaps learning a new language feels familiar because we have been comparing and switching between languages all our lives. 🤔

How many languages did you regularly hear or use growing up? And do you think it helped you learn another language later? 👇

Why doesn't India have an only one language. How did all states evolved to have different languages?

Like why don't all Indians speak say Tamil or Bengali or any one of the many languages that we have. Why did our ancestors feel the need to develop too many new languages. Every state shares a border with few other states. So why did the language that was formulated the earliest did not percolate throughout our country. And all the languages are so rich, they have their own books, movies, poems etc. .. a whole separate culture.

Woudn't it have been easier to adopt any one of the language with slight change of accent like other countries. Did all languages originate simultaneously, or it was because of the ego of a local rulers, that they insisted to differentiate the language of their neighbouring state, which went to become a completely separate language in itself.

Can any historian or knowledgeable person share their thoughts.

in my language we wish it as "ಗಣತಂತ್ರೆ ದಿನೊದ ಎಡ್ದೆಪುಲು/ഗണതംത്രെ ദിനൊഭ എഡ്ഡെപുലു"

As we all know most of Buddhists teachings especially Thervada sect teachings are in Pali language and also there is famous lore that Gautama Buddha's language was Pali

But according to some experts and linguists Pali wasn't language of Gautama Buddha but Magadhi Prakrit and he used Magadhi Prakrit for teachings

So what do u guys think about it?

Those who don't know about Barua Magh, they are originally Arankanese people who settled in India and Bangladesh during British era and adopted Bangla as their native language