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Indian cultural history spans more than 4,500 years.
According to the most recent census of 2011, after thorough linguistic scrutiny, edit, and rationalization on 19,569 raw linguistic affiliations, the census recognizes 1369 rationalized mother tongues and 1474 names which were treated as ‘unclassified’ and relegated to ‘other’ mother tongue category.
[50] Among, the 1369 rationalized mother tongues which are spoken by 10,000 or more speakers, are further grouped into appropriate set that resulted into total 121 languages. In these 121 languages, 22 are already part of the
Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India and the other 99 are termed as “Total of other languages” which is one short as of the other languages recognized in 2001 census.
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