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India - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article |
 | | Although 80.5 % of the people are Hindus, India is also home to the third largest population of Muslims in the world (13.4 % see Islam in India) after Indonesia and Pakistan. |
 | | Other smaller religious minorities include Christians (2.33%), Sikhs (1.84 %), Buddhists (0.76 %), Jains (0.40 %), Ayyavazhi (0.12 %), Jews, Parsis, Ahmadi, and Bahá'ís. |
 | | India is home to two major linguistic families, those of the Indo-Aryan (spoken by about 74% of the Indian population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 24% of the Indian population) derived languages. |
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