How are the Indo-Aryan languages different from the Dravidian languages?

Dravidian languages are mostly spoken in the south of the Indian subcontinent, while Indo-Aryan languages are concentrated in the north. It is thought that Dravidian languages were native to the Indian subcontinent and were originally spread across all of India.

Are Hindi and Bengali intelligible?

Hindi and Bangla are indeed similar but are mutually intelligible only after a certain amount of time spent listening to people speak in that language.

What was the common feature that held the Aryan tribes together?

The Indian group or Indo-Aryan (especially Vedic, the language of the Vedas), Avestan, and Old Persian show some remarkable correspondences, especially in the religious language (one could translate whole Av. sentences word by word according to the phonetic laws into correct Vedic).

What is meant by Indo-Aryan language?

Indo-Aryan languages, also called Indic languages, subgroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. In the early 21st century, Indo-Aryan languages were spoken by more than 800 million people, primarily in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

What is the mutual intelligibility of Indo-Aryan languages?

For the most part mutual intelligibility is highest between Indo-Aryan languages that are of the same branch, that is, descended from the same ancient vernacular.

What are some languages similar to the Hindi language?

Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi/Urdu, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi), possibly with a parallel to either the Romance or Slavic families with which I have some familiarity. For example are Punjabi and Hindi as similar as, say, Italian and Spanish (i.e. fairly close), or something more of the order of the difference between, say, French and Romanian?

Can a native Hindi speaker understand Punjabi and Marathi?

I am native Hindi speaker who has traveled and lived in other states. If a Hindi person has never interacted with Punjabi, Marathi, Gujrati, Bengali, Kashmiri, Oriya, he/she will probably wont understand any words. The dialect and accent varies a lot. These languages have different scripts.

How many official languages are there in India?

Indo-Aryan languages which include Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese etc are spoken by 75 \% of Indian population. The dravidian language family which consists of Tamil, Telugu, Malyalam, Odia etc spoken by 20\% of population. There are 22 official languages of India including Hindi and English.