Thread: English in India

Hi, I came across this Wikipedia article stating that "only" 90 million Indians can be considered English speakers.

This surprised me a bit. Any local insight on this? It seems most major media use English, or maybe I am wrong?

And are domains in regional languages popular?


PS: Sorry about the misspelling in the headline. Cannot edit it...

Originally Posted by euroflash

Hi, I came across this Wikipedia article stating that "only" 90 million Indians can be considered English speakers.

This surprised me a bit. Any local insight on this? It seems most major media use English, or maybe I am wrong?

And are domains in regional languages popular?


PS: Sorry about the misspelling in the headline. Cannot edit it...

Still a very large audience and predominately internet users.

Regional language content in quite a few sites however idn have really yet to take off and may be quite some time yet as English is still dominant in the Indian webspace.

Thanks for the information Will be interesting to see how it develops in the comings years. Especially in a time where local news seems to be more popular than ever.