70 million Tamils out of 1.3 billion is
NOT a "
Very tiny parts of India".
If you want to exclude other more recent languages, then you should also NOT compare it with 1.3 billion.
Please don't pick and choose data to support your delusional contrived conclusions.
And please don't quote controversial figures without supporting facts.
How is Hindi older than Mandarin which is basically the Beijing dialect.
It was rumoured that the Mandarin dialect was chosen as the official language over the older Cantonese dialect in a vote in 1911.
You might as well say Chinese is a very new language, as Simplified Chinese started in 1949.
How is Hindi that according wiki is formed in the late 19th century older than Mandarin ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi
In the late 19th century, a movement to develop Hindi as a standardised form of Hindustani separate from Urdu took form. In 1881,
Bihar accepted Hindi as its sole official language, replacing Urdu, and thus became the first state of India to adopt Hindi.
All of this do not refute the fact that India is born of their British colonizers.
Its sad to watch Indians trying so hard, doing acrobatics, to cling to their ancient Vedic Indian grandeur.
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