India: Lonely Planet Phrasebook (English and Indic Edition)

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Over one billion people speaking in 22 official languages - it'd be easy to mistake your Kashmiri from your Konkani, but not with this little beauty in your backpack. You'll be conversing effortlessly across the whole inspiring land.

This phrasebook covers: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Marwari (Rajasthani), Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

• Covers 15 of the 22 languages
• Thorough food and culture section
• Practicalities like transport and accommodation
• Maps to show you what language is spoken where

Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place. Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so you can always rely on us to tell it like it is.

Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Shahara Ahmed, Richard Delacy, Omkar N. Koul, Aruna Magier, Hari Prasad Nadig, Bert Naik, Amrit Parmar, Jatinder Singh, and Madhu Thaker.

About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in.

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