The northeastern region, which presents a complex linguistic mosaic and has "jealously" preserved over 200 dialects, is home to 45.58 million people (according to the 2011 Census).
The indigenous tribes constitute around 28 per cent of the population and they mostly speak in their native language or their indigenous language.
Besides, a large number of non-tribals belonging to Hindu, Muslim and Christian communities, a reasonable portion of indigenous and Hindi-speaking people live in the region with different lifestyles, cultures, traditions and languages.
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