What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples — neat and discrete — and more like oatmeal. It's always been oatmeal in India, and all the varieties of oatmeal continue to merge, despite political pressures to name them as if they were marbles.
Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
india, language, multilingualism