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ZhouDa t1_irs8jhc wrote

Reply to comment by PM_ME_A_PLANE_TICKET in TIL according to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages by Sistermateriial

Not sure, but I doubt their basis for classifying them as languages is different than anywhere else in the world. For example Spanish and Portuguese I hear has a good degree of intelligibility yet are classified as separate languages, same with Russian and Ukrainian.

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PM_ME_A_PLANE_TICKET t1_irsi10g wrote

meanwhile, high and low German are dialects and change merely in pronunciation for the most part.

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WhereToSit t1_is14tlm wrote

Russian and Ukrainian only have like a 50% vocab overlap which like you can generally convey important information with that but having a full blown conversation is a different story.

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