â¦ one way or another/one way or the other phrase PHR after v. We've got to make our decision one way or the other..., I didn't really care one way or another. 65 You use the other way around or the other way round to refer to the opposite of what you have just said.9 You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction. â¦ by way of prep-phrase PREP n. `I get very superstitious about things like that,' she said by way of explanation.
The 2001 Census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than 10,000 people. Two contact languages have played an important role in the history of India: Persian and English. Persian was the court language during the Mughal period in India.
India has 23 constitutionally recognized official languages. Hindi and English are the official languages used by the Central Government. State governments use respective official languages. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in northern parts of India.The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of Hindi as a broad variety of  Hindi languages .urther information: List of languages by number of native speakers. Ordered by number of speakers as first language. Indian population in 1991 exhibited 19.4% of bilingualism and 7.2% of trilingualism, so that the total percentage of native languages is at about 127%.