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The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as the broad variety of the Hindi languages. The native speakers of Hindi so defined account for 39% of Indians. Bengali is the second most spoken language of South Asia, found in both Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.
The Indo-European languages are primarily represented in Asia by the Indo-Iranian branch, with its two main subgroups: Indo-Aryan and Indo-Iranian. Indo-Aryan languages are mainly spoken in South Asia. Examples include languages such as Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Bengali, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Marathi, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Sylheti)
The total Hindu population in Bangladesh exceeds the population of many Muslim majority countries like Yemen, Jordan, Tajikistan, Syria, Tunisia, Oman, and others. [165] Also the total Hindu population in Bangladesh is roughly equal to the total population of Greece and Belgium. [166] Bengali Hindus also worship regional deities. [63] [64] [65]
While the more widely spoken and better-known Austroasiatic languages are spoken in Southeast Asia (e.g. Khmer and Vietnamese), smaller languages of that family are spoken by indigenous communities of northern and eastern Bangladesh. There are two branches of Austro-Asiatic represented in Bangladesh. Khasi: Spoken in Sylhet division. Also a ...
[Note on 10 Feb 2010: I just went back to the source maps at Ethnologue, and found that the source had been changed. There were formerly two maps, and now there's just one covering the entire country, with some rather substantial changes. I will have to update my map based on the further information at Ethnologue.
Bundeli (3 m), spoken in south-western Uttar Pradesh and west-central Madhya Pradesh. Haryanvi (8 m), spoken in Chandigarh, Haryana, and as a minority in Punjab and Delhi. Hindustani (including Hindi and Urdu (373 m)), spoken in western Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, and after partition in Pakistan. Andaman Creole Hindi; Arunachali Hindi; Bihari Hindi ...
List of countries and territories where Hindi (हिन्दी) is an official language.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...