Sanskrit is a small side node because it is a dead classics language so few living speakers. The chart is speaker-population-sized
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This Tyrewala essay was in collection I edited for Sulekha. You can sense creative genesis of A+ "living" dialog in Munnabhai, MBBS here
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"yaar Mumbai mein bahut pollution hai. maa nahin dikh rahi aaj." should be carved on a monument somewhere.
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Bollywood has been an interesting case of "rescuing" a living language from bureaucratic mangling (often through crime movies in particular)
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This reminds me of a conversation in Fiji. Girl of Indian origin, excited to see "a real Indian", "Do you talk like in Hindi movies?"

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:D :D :D
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reshared it with some trepidation on facebook; waiting to see who jumps down my throat in defense of shudh hindi :)
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Hard to argue with hit scriptwriter who's coined gems like "gandhigiri", though him being Muslim creates obvious red herring tack
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