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Is Marathi mutually intelligible?

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Is Marathi mutually intelligible?

Even Hindi’s sister languages Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali etc are not completely mutually intelligible with Hindi. You can think of the differences between them as being similar to the differences between French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese etc.

What languages are mutually intelligible with Hindi?

About 50\% can speak all three languages. Urdu and Hindi are similar to some extent. Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam are Dravidan languages spoken in South of India. Telugu and Kannada scripts look alike, but it does not mean all Telugu people can understand Kannada.

What are the similarities between Marathi and Bengali and Hindi?

Hindi, Bengali and Marathi belong to the same language group, Indo-European languages (along with most European languages, Persian, Pashto etc). Marathi uses the same script as Hindi, Bangla uses a different script.

What are the similarities and differences between Hindi and Tamil?

Both languages came from different language families. Hindi came from the Indo-European linguistic family while Tamil is a descendant of the Dravidian languages. Hindi is written in the Devanagari script while Tamil uses its own distinctive script. Hindi enjoys the status as being one of the official languages of the country.

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What is the difference between the Tamil and Telegu languages?

Hindi, Marathi, Bengali belongs to Indo-aryan languages subgroup of Indo-European language family. Tamil and Telegu belongs to different groups of Dravidian language family. But since Telegu is highly influenced by Sanskrit accounting Sanskrit originated words 70-75\% of its vocabulary make Telegu more difficult for Tamils.

Why don’t Marathi and Bengali speakers speak Hindi in India?

Also, Hindi is the second language of communication in large cities of states where Marathi and Bengali is spoken. The other way round is not usually true as native Hindi speakers (of states where Hindi is the only language) cannot usually understand or speak Marathi/Bengali. The reason is the same, there is no exposure.