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ON LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN INDIA Did you know that India is one of the richest multilingual countries in the world ? Did you know that out of 600 languages in India 198 languages are threatened with extinction,more than anywhere else in the world ? Did you know that a Greater Andamanese language is believed to be 65000 years old ? Startling facts as revealed by Rudraneil Sengupta in his remarkable article published in Mint on 8 October 2011.  biswajit sengupta saw this story and thought you might be interested to view it: Mapping India | We the speakers Just how many languages co-exist in India? A new survey is throwing up some startling figures Click here to view full story To receive these alerts regularly please go to livemint.com and register , its Free. © 2007, HT Media Ltd | All rights reserved | 18-20 KG Marg, New Delhi,110001 | To view our privacy, Click here.