Multiple linguistic studies confirm that India is home to several distinct language families, such as Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Tibeto-Burman, which possess unique phonological and morphological characteristics rather than being mere dialects.
The retrieved papers consistently recognize that Indian languages belong to several distinct major language families (such as Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Tibeto-Burman) with unique grammatical, phonological, and morphological features. There is no evidence in the provided literature refuting this linguistic classification.