India

he **Republic of India** ([|Hindi]: भारत गणराज्य //[|Bhārat] [|Gaṇarājya]//), commonly known as **India**, is a country in [|South Asia]. It is the [|seventh-largest] country by geographical area, the [|second most populous] country, and the most populous [|liberal democracy] in the world. India has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres, bounded by the [|Indian Ocean] on the south, the [|Arabian Sea] on the west, and the [|Bay of Bengal] on the east. India borders [|Pakistan] to the west;[|[1]] [|People's Republic of China], [|Nepal] and [|Bhutan] to the north-east; and [|Bangladesh] and [|Myanmar] to the east.
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The **languages of [|India]** primarily belong to two major [|linguistic families], [|Indo-European] (whose branch [|Indo-Aryan] is spoken by about 74% of the population) and [|Dravidian] (spoken by about 24%). Other languages spoken in India come from the [|Austro-Asiatic] and [|Tibeto-Burman] linguistic families, as well as numerous [|language isolates]. The [|Andamanese languages], spoken on the [|Andaman Islands], are apparently [|not related] to any other language family. The number of [|mother tongues] in India is as high as 1,652, of which 24 languages are spoken by a million or more people. Three millennia of language contact situation have led to a lot of mutual influence among the four language families in India and South Asia. Two [|contact languages] have played an important role in the [|history of India]: [|Persian] and [|English].[|[1]] Two [|classical languages] native to the land are [|Sanskrit][|[2]] and [|Tamil].[|[3]][|[4]][|[5]]
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