| This map depicts the areas in the Indian subcontinent in which various language families are spoken. Languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian group (a branch of the Indo-European language family), such as Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Gujarāti, Persian, and Punjabi, are prevalent in northern and central India and most of Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In southern India, Dravidian languages are more common, the most widely spoken being Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. Other languages spoken in the region belong to the Sino-Tibetan and Austro-Asiatic language families, and English is often used as a trade language. |
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