This table carried its own worst case as a caveat: the ways in were chosen for the
COUNTRY, so Arunachal Pradesh — in the far north-east — was offered TELUGU, a South
Indian language, because the curated bridge table is keyed by country and a curated
bridge outranks a computed one. Manipur and Kerala got Telugu too.
The province answers for itself now. Candidates are the languages of groups
STANDING IN IT that already have Scripture AND film, ranked by the people here who
already hold them. Arunachal Pradesh gets Hindi and Assamese, Manipur gets Meitei,
Kerala gets Malayalam — each one a measured neighbour rather than a national
average. 41 of 46 provinces can answer locally; the other 5 keep the country answer
and the new Basis column says which is which, because "no language here has both
Scripture and film" is itself worth reading. The country-level answer stays in its
own column so the two can be compared rather than swapped silently.
It is a NEIGHBOUR, not a recommendation: whether a group actually speaks it is a
question for someone on the ground, and the table says so.
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