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Show Many Languages in India There are many races In India, and the Individuals are 'as different as a German is from a Frenchman, and as easy to recognize as belonging to different dif-ferent races, says Asia Magazine. Some women wear skirts, some wear trousers. Some men wear trousers, some wear skirts. And some wear neither skirts nor trousers. They elmply wear a piece of cloth wound about their bodies. As different and numerous as are their costumes, religions, customs aud races, so are the languages. The ofllclal census records 220 different dif-ferent dialects. It also shows that over 100 different languages ore spoken In India. These are not dialects. dia-lects. They are absolutely differing tongues as different as English and French. And all these more than five-scoie five-scoie languages are spoken In one country. |