Daily Quiz | On Indian languages
Portrait of James Prinsep — an Englishman who deciphered the Brahmi script, considered the ancestor of most modern Indian scripts, in 1837 by studying Ashokan inscriptions
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How many languages are recognised as per the Constitution of India under the Eighth Schedule and which language has a country’s name in it?
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What is common to Bodo, Dogri, Kashmiri, Maithili, Santali and Sindhi that are part of the recognised languages?
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Apart from the four South Indian languages, which two other languages have ‘Classical’ status?
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Which language has the second-highest number of native speakers after Hindi?
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In which language was Tulsidas’ Ramcharitmanas set to have been written?
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Thanks to consonant-vowel combination forming a unique character, which Indian language has a whopping 247 characters in the traditional classification?
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Why has Meghalaya’s Kongthong village fascinated linguists?
Published – March 03, 2025 05:00 pm IST