Neither would Afrikaans, I guess...
But tell me, Infy, are those numbers for first-language speakers only? I'm sure many more people can understand English as a second language, and Hindi should have more people able to converse in it as well! Ron, how does the local languages in India stack up against each other?
Over here in SA, we have about 40 million people speaking plenty different languages (11 of them are official! - imagine the mess in government, where every single document
must be available in all languages!) - but when they converse amongst each other, they normally talk in either English or Afrikaans, because a Zulu speaker simply can't understand a Venda or a Tswana speaker, for instance. How does this linguistic "tribalism" feature in India, the second most populous country in the world?
