Which linguistic group has the highest number of speakers in India?
Indo - Aryan
Indian languages belong to four main language families: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austric (Austro-Asiatic) and Sino-Tibetan.
The Indo-Aryan family is the largest, spoken by about three-fourths of Indians; it includes Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and others.
Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) are spoken by about one-fifth of the population, while Austric and Sino-Tibetan languages are spoken by small tribal and north-eastern communities.
Hence, the answer is Indo - Aryan.
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