What does INC mean in LANGUAGE CODES (3 LETTERS)

Indic (Other) is a term used to describe a group of language families and sub-families that are spoken by people who live in or trace their ancestry to India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Pakistan. These languages are not classified as part of the Indo-European language family which includes languages such as English and Spanish.

Languages within the Indic (Other) category include Tibetan, Burmese, Sinhala, Nepalese and Dravidian languages like Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

According to recent estimates from The Ethnologue Language Family Survey Report 2019 Edition, more than 1.8 billion people around the world speak at least one language belonging to this family.

Yes, many countries have officially recognized some of these languages as official state or national languages including Bangladesh recognizing Bengali; India recognizing Hindi and Sanskrit; Maldives recognizing Dhivehi; Nepal recognizing Nepali; Sri Lanka recognizing Sinhala.

Yes! Many of the Indic Other languages share a common script called Brahmi script. Additionally they share many grammatical features such as verb conjugations and word order structures which create strong ties among them.

Hindi has been reported as being the most widely spoken language in the world among all modern Indo-European Languages with approximately 837 million native speakers according to an estimate from 2019. It’s closely followed by Bengali which was estimated to have around 260 million native speakers globally in 2019.

Learning an Indic (other) language can involve several methods such as using online resources like Duolingo or Busuu for learning vocabulary and grammar basics or enrolling yourself into a local course or program run by an experienced tutor. Watching movies or shows from that region also helps with learning new words quickly in context while understanding cultural references better.

All these languages have incredibly rich histories interwoven with mythology – Hinduism is rooted in Sanskrit while Buddhism originates from Pali – both being ancient forms of Indian religious texts respectively making them part of culture throughout South Asia & Southeast Asia regions! Also most words used within these linguistic families derive from Prakrit & Sanskrit that date back centuries making them maintain consistency.

Learning any foreign language can be challenging but once you become familiar with its writing system - whether that’s Devanagari script used for Hindi/Sanskrit or Perso Arabic script used for Urdu - then it becomes much easier to pick up speaking & comprehension skills since many borrowings exist between each other making them easier to understand.