The languages Indians speak fall into four major families – Dravidian, which is spoken by about a fifth of Indians and has no relatives outside of south Asia today; Indo-European, which is spoken by over three-quarters of Indians and is spread all the way from south Asia to Europe; Austroasiatic, which is spoken by about 1.2 per cent of Indians and is spread across south Asia and east Asia; and Tibeto-Burman, which is spread across south Asia, China and south-east Asia and is spoken by less than 1 per cent of Indians.
