Which one of the following is the largest linguistic group in India?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Indo-European (Aryan)
The speakers of the major Indian languages belong to four language families. The table of these families gives the Indo-European (Aryan) family 73 per cent of speakers, far ahead of the Dravidian (20 per cent), Austric (1.38 per cent) and Sino-Tibetan (0.85 per cent) families.
Note: The same question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2023 on 22-05-2023 (Slot 2).
NCERT (2025-26): “Linguistic Classification The speakers of major Indian languages belong to four language families, which have their sub-families and branches or groups. This can be better understood from Table 1.2.…”
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