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"They speak Hindi and English in India."

We do and with Hindi and/or English you can get by almost everywhere.

In practice, the language spoken changes every 200 miles you travel (and India is a big country). Most educated Indians speak 3 or more languages.

From Wikipedia,

"According to the most recent census of 2001, 29 languages have more than a million native speakers, 60 have more than 100,000 and 122 have more than 10,000 native speakers.

The government of India has given 22 "languages of the 8th Schedule" the status of official language."