OCR Text |
Show Languages of India. Twenty-eight languages are spoken in India, and none of these is spoken by fewer than 400,000 persons, while the most, general is the mother tongue of 85.500.000. Besides these there are in the remotest parts of the country dialects spoken by no more than 500 persons, which none other than themselves them-selves can Interpret, '"ij1 ''as nine great creeds, numbering TTielr followers follow-ers from the 2O8.H0O.IMI0 Hindoos down to ;he 9,250.000 Aniniistics and the innumerable sects Included in the 43,-000 43,-000 "others." |