Arrange the following major Indian language families in descending order based on share of speakers.
(A) Austric
(B) Dravidian
(C) Indo-European
(D) Sino-Tibetan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (C), (B), (A), (D)
(C) Indo-European — first, 73 per cent.
(B) Dravidian — second, 20 per cent.
(A) Austric — third, 1.38 per cent.
(D) Sino-Tibetan — last, 0.85 per cent.
Note: A similar question was also asked in CUET (UG) 2025 on 03-06-2025 (Slot 1), and in CUET (UG) 2023 on 02-07-2023 (Slot 3), 12-06-2023 (Slot 3) and 05-06-2023 (Slot 1).
NCERT (2026-27): “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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