can sri lanka speak hindi?
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For a moment, I was wondering whether I was in Sri Lanka or whether the Indians have taken over the country. Sri Lankans — almost 99 percent — do not speak or understand Hindi, although our closest neighbour is India.
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Telugu is the primary official language of Andhra Pradesh and spoken as a native language by about 83.88% of the people. Other ethnic minorities in the state as of 2001 are Urdu people (8.63%), Tamil people (3.01%), Kannada people (2.60%), Marathi people (0.70%) and Odia people (0.44%).
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Hindi, the most commonly spoken language in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of North and Central India.
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It is chiefly spoken in western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Sociolinguistically, Bhojpuri is considered one of several Hindi dialects. The language is a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Telugu people were speaking Telugu from the olden days. Hindi speaking people were speaking Hindi from the olden days. It is difficult to say which came first. ... Yet it takes me a lot of effort to understand Telugu poems written 500-800 years back by such poets as Nannayya, Potana, Srinatha, and Peddanna.
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"We" are Sri Lanka's Tamil minority, between 10 and 15% of the country's 22 million inhabitants. The "rights" are an end to decades of what Tamils say is discrimination in employment, culture and language, as well as freedom of speech and association.
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Greater official recognition of Bhojpuri, such as by inclusion in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, has been demanded. In 2018, Bhojpuri was given second-language status in Jharkhand state of India. It is also an official language in Fiji as Fiji Hindi.
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But in comparison to other languages, Nepali language is quite difficult because it has many vowel and consonant. It is a bit easy to learn Nepali as it is derived from Sanskrit language . You can have good command in Nepal in few weeks.
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Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language referred to as Hindi-Urdu or sometimes Hindustani. ... As a literary language, Urdu took shape in courtly, elite settings.
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Yes, they are mutually intelligible to a large extent. I am a native Hindi/Awadhi speaker and learned Punjabi with relative ease. ... This is because Punjabi has more naturalised vocabulary as well as a distinct tone which is often fast. If spoken slowly, a Hindi speaker would be able to easily understand Punjabi.
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Hindi and Nepali are very similar to each other, but they have some differences. Both countries are multilingual. While Hindi is spoken by about 180 million natives, Nepali is spoken by 13.9 million natives. ... Both Hindi and Nepali are Indo-Aryan languages.
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['Hindi. Hindi Speakers: 551 million. ... ', 'Bengali. Bengali Speakers: 83 million. ... ', 'Marathi. Marathi Speakers: 72 million. ... ', 'Telugu. Telugu Speakers: 71 million. ... ', 'Tamil. Tamil Speakers: 67 million. ... ', 'Gujarati. Gujarati Speakers: 55 million. ... ', 'Urdu. Urdu Speakers: 51 million. ... ', 'Kannada. Kannada Speakers: 44 million.']
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Both languages came from different language families. Hindi came from the Indo-European linguistic family while Tamil is a descendant of the Dravidian languages. Hindi is written in the Devanagari script while Tamil uses its own distinctive script. ... Tamil is much older compared to Hindi.
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Tamil, the official state language, is spoken by most of the people. Other Dravidian languages used within the state include Telugu, which is spoken by roughly one-tenth of the population, as well as Kannada and Malayalam, which are spoken by much smaller numbers.
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The most widely spoken languages of this group are Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Rajasthani, Sindhi, Assamese (Asamiya), Maithili and Odia.
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While Hindustani—a colloquial mix of Hindi and Urdu—is spoken throughout Bihar, different regions have different dialects. There are five dialects—Bhojpuri, Magahi, Maithili, Angika and Vajjika (also known as Brajjika or Bajjika). Most speakers of these dialects can easily understand, if not speak, standardised Hindi.
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Category:Languages of West Bengal. The following are the languages spoken in large and small numbers in the Indian State of West Bengal . Though the most spoken language in the land of West Bengal is the Bengali.