Cultural Question to all Indians here

[GreekGenes]

So my mom was recently in the hospital here in the EU and there was two Indian nurses.

Despite both being Indian they said they could not understand each other and communicated in English instead.

Now i guess there's different dialects/languages in India but don't people learn one common tongue besides their local/regional dialects?

Explain this and tell me if this is a common phenomenon in your country.

 

[curryltn]

So my mom was recently in the hospital here in the EU and there was two Indian nurses.

Despite both being Indian they said they could not understand each other and communicated in English instead.

Now i guess there's different dialects/languages in India but don't people learn one common tongue besides their local/regional dialects?

Explain this and tell me if this is a common phenomenon in your country.

Every state in India has it's different language
Most people know Hindi in India but in south india many people don't speak Hindi but only their state's language and english