Talk:Languages of India
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Semi-protected edit request on 25 September 2025
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In the Indo-Aryan language family section of the Language Families section change "or over 76.5 of the population" to "or over 76.5% of the population" Tequa9706 (talk) 10:13, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
Done thanks for noticing that. Slomo666 (talk) 11:15, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
Restructuring the sections
[edit]just wanted to streamline the page content into logical & self contained sections. some suggestions:
1. the section Classical languages of India & Practical problems should come as subheadings under Official languages section, since Scheduled languages is already there. 2. the content for Hindi under Official languages should be swapped with the content under Hindi for Prominent Languages of India, because the context of the text is descriptive of the language, not the status of Hindi in India. Symphonicallyu (talk) 17:40, 22 January 2026 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 10 May 2026
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Add the language Saurashtra in the list of languages. It is spoken by the people of the south and it is a dialect. JanaviTS (talk) 07:16, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Not done. There is no list of languages here; it's a broad overview of the general topic. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 15:24, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Incorrect chart?
[edit]Apologies if I'm doing this wrong - I'm not sure about the etiquette here.
At the head of the Language Families section there is a pie chart titled "Languages of India by language families", alongside a table listing Language family | Population (2011 census) | Pct.
The data in these two is completely different and incompatible. Additionally the pie chart data doesn't make sense: it claims the largest language family in India is the Sino-Tibetan family, with 34.9% of speakers. That doesn't match data I've seen anywhere else, including in this article, in the Sino-Tibetan languages article it links to, and again in the table right next to it, which lists Sino-Tibetan languages as spoken by 1.012% of the population in 2011.
However I don't have a subscription to Ethnologue, from which the pie chart is supposedly taken, or the expertise or time to do better research on which data is accurate, so I'm not comfortable making an edit here on my own. Hoping somebody else does.
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-47913-61 (talk) 12:05, 4 September 2026 (UTC)