Dear Pratap Naik, sj, Thanks for this information. I have a question for you, which follows my brief comment. For even .24% of Indians to consider Konkani as their mother-tongue means that the majority of those speakes are in Karnataka and elsewhere.
If posible could you kindly provide information on scripts used for the 122 languages? I know this is a bit much to ask, but please do so if time permits. 1. Indo-European (a) Indo-Aryan (21languages): Bhili/Bhilodi, Bishnupuriya, Dogri(S), Halabi, Khandeshi (Devnagiri?), Maithili (Nagari, Devnagiri?), Nepali (Is Prachalit still in use besides Devnagiri?), and Shina (b) Iranian (2 languages)[Ignore] (c) Germanic (1 language)[Ignore] 2. Dravidian (17languages: Coorgi/Kodagu, Gondi, Jatapu, Khond/Kondh,Kisan, Kolami, Konda, Koya, Kui, Kurukh/Oraon (Bengali?), Malto, Parji 3. Austro-Asiatic (14 languages) & 4. Tibeto-Burmese (66 languages) Many of these languages had their own scripts. Is there any info on those that still use the native scripts. 5. Semito-Hamitic (1 language) [Ignore] Venantius > From: "pratap naik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Goanet] Family-wise grouping of the 122languages of India > > The following data respectively gives Language families, Number of > Languages, Persons who returned the languages as their mother tongue, and > Percentage to total population