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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 11, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 19.

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Languages and Creeds of India

By Chicago News

TWENTY-EIGHT languages are spoken in India, and none of these is spoken by fewer than 400,000 persons, while the most general is the mother tongue of 85,500,000. Besides these there are in the remotest parts of the country dialects spoken by no more than 500 persons, which none other than themselves can interpret. India has nine great creeds, numbering their followers from the 208,000,000 Hindus down to the 9,250,000 Animistics, and the innumerable sects included in the 43,000 “others.”—Chicago News.