India vs Indian?

What's the difference between the two tags and is it necessary to make them distinct?

Anonymous9000 said:
What's the difference between the two tags and is it necessary to make them distinct?

One should reference the county the other should reference the language based on similar tags.

There's no language called "Indian" though. The official language of India is Hindi.

further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

jjj14 said:
There's no language called "Indian" though. The official language of India is Hindi.

Which is a very good point.

It could potentially work as the adjective meaning "traditionally Indian-styled", say onion domed architecture and Hindi statuettes, though that's probably quite a stretch for Danbooru's purposes.

Any language would definately not be "Indian" though. India is very linguistically diverse and actually has 22 official languages, each with their own names, scripts, and backgrounds; Hindi is only one of them.

Hindi is the only wide area official language (english is subsidiary), all the others are just regional.

The script specifically used to write Hindi is called Devanagari. It's used for other Indian languages the same way Cyrillic is used for multiple Slavic languages besides Russian, so if someone wants to tag an image for the presence of Indian symbols then Devanagari might make more sense as a tag, even if it's a bit obscure.

We tag by language not by script, so I'd say negatron to that.

On the other hand though, what is the likelihood that someone would be able to identify the language written in a script one doesn't know? It'd be the same as trying to separate Arabic from Persian (both are written in Arabic script, but the languages aren't related).