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(詳細はSouth Asia speaking a variety of Indian languages. Today, most ethnic Indians in Singapore are locally born second, third, fourth or even fifth generation descendants of immigrant forefathers. In addition, a substantial minority are recent immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. In Singapore, a distinction is made between the ancestral ethno-linguistic identity of a person and the actual language that he or she uses or is able to use. Singapore's census takers make this distinction by capturing both types of data. Ancestral ethno-linguistic identity is captured under the category of 'dialect group' (although this term may be more appropriate for describing the linguistic composition of the majority Chinese, rather than Indians). In contrast, actual language use is captured by the term'language most frequently spoken at home'. ==Ethno-linguistic profile== In 2000, the Singapore census categorised the 257,845 Indian Singapore citizens and permanent residents into a number of 'dialect' groups. However, these groups included Sikhs, who are a religious rather than linguistic group, virtually all of whom are Punjabi, which was also captured as a separate 'dialect' category (presumably comprising mainly Hindu or Muslim Punjabis). Also, while 'Hindustani', 'Hindi' and 'Urdu' are mutually intelligible, they are presented as distinct dialects. Given their small absolute and relative numbers, the following table adapts the 2000 census data by combining the 'Sikh' (13,188) and 'Punjabi' (4,711) category under 'Punjabi', while 'Hindustani' (5,064), 'Hindi' (3,971) and 'Urdu' (2,989) are combined as 'Hindustani' (figures in brackets refer to the size of these groups according to the census). The percentages in the table refer to the proportion of each language group within the larger Resident Indian community in Singapore. !bgcolor="efefef"|'Dialect' group !bgcolor="efefef"|Number !bgcolor="efefef"|Percentage |- |Tamil||150,184||58.25% |- |Malayalam||21,736||8.43% |- |Punjabi||17,899||6.9% |- |Hindustani||12,024||4.7% |- |Sindhi||4,071||1.58% |- |Gujarati||3,260||1.26% |- |Sinhalese||2,427||0.94% |- |Telugu|| No Idea about exact number and percentage || |- |Other Indians||46,244||17.94% |} Singapore's Indian community is characterised by an ethnic Tamil majority (58%) and a large number of smaller groups. Ethnic Tamils in Singapore include both Tamils from India and Sri Lankan Tamils (sometimes referred to as 'Ceylonese'). Malayalees from Kerala in South India form the second largest community, making up 8.43% of the Indian population. Tamils and Malayalees are the two main South Indian communities in Singapore, forming two-thirds of the Indian population. Meanwhile, the four main North Indian groups in Singapore (the Punjabi, Hindi, Sindhi and Gujarati communities) constitute 14.5% of all Indians. The remaining 18% comprised many smaller groups from both South India (such as Telugu) and East India (such as Bengali). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian languages in Singapore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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