DEBUNKING INDIAN STEREOTYPES

how many languages are commonly spoken in india/what are they?

How many languages are commonly spoken in India? What are they? - Jasonsbricky

You'd be reading a book bigger than the bible if you wanted to know all of them. 

India has no one official language with respect to being democratic.

We have two main languages: Hindi and English. We also have 22 scheduled languages which are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. Anyone giving a government exam could do it in any of the above languages. This is done because...well, it's easier.

I'm bilingual and can speak English and Hindi. I do know a little bit of French. But I'm waaaaaay better in English than in Hindi(look at one of the down paragraphs). I have to learn Sanskrit, the language where all these Indian languages originated from(and I think someone told me that German also has some influence from Sanskrit, idk), for my exams. But I wouldn't say that I can speak it, write it or do anything with it other than from an exam point of view and honestly I don't want to.

My parents said that when I was younger, I could also speak Marathi fluently, but honestly that's absurd for me beacuse...you can read the story in the next para or just move onto religions.

When I was around 7, I moved to the UK. So mostly I grew up in that environment, and I spoke English more. And since those were my childhood years, most of my...idk, development?(lol) was like a British person. But then after some years I moved back to my home country. The curriculum was waaaay harder but I'm acing it now.  We had the option to choose between Marathi and Sanskrit as a third language which we would learn in school(apart from English and Hindi). So when my parents asked, I was like wth? What is Marathi, I don't know! But now I've moved to the UK again. But i'll have to fly back again to give my Boards which are kind of like GCSE equivalents and are super important and waaaay harder and then come back again. (my ears which hurt a lot from the change in air pressure are crying in depression rn).

We also have no official religion with respect to democracy.

But Hinduism is the most widespread. The other most popular(in order I think) are: Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism.

So it's pretty diverse. 

I don't really follow any. I do celebrate major Hindu festivals but yeah....You won't find me praying every single day like my aunt does.

So that's it for this question.

Any further questions/stereotypes go here.

I'm sorry if I sound annoyed or whatever in my writing, I'm just freaking tired and worried about my exam.