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Spoken by about 96 million people (2022), [10] Telugu is the most widely spoken member of the Dravidian language family, and one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India. [11] It is one of the few languages that has primary official status in more than one Indian state, alongside Hindi and Bengali. [12]
Marathi (/ m ə ˈ r ɑː t i /; [13] मराठी, Marāṭhī, pronounced [məˈɾaːʈʰiː] ⓘ) is a classical Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is also spoken in other states like in Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and the territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
In many Indian Hindu communities, the naming is most often done by consulting the child's horoscope, which suggests various names depending on the child's lunar sign (called rashi). However, in Marathi Hindu families, the name that the child inevitably uses in secular functions is the one decided by their parents.
Kannada (/ ˈkɑːnədə, ˈkæn -/; [5][6] ಕನ್ನಡ, IPA: [ˈkɐnːɐɖa]), formerly also known as Canarese, [7] is a classical Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in south western India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or ...
Tamil text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919standard. Tamil[b](தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced[t̪amiɻ]ⓘ) is a classicalDravidian languagenatively spoken by the Tamil peopleof South Asia. It is one of the two longest-surviving classical languagesin India, along with Sanskrit,[10][11 ...
There are many forms of Brahmin Tamil spoken. Brahmin Tamil, in general, is less influenced by regional dialects than the dialects used by other Tamil communities. [8] The two main regional variations are the Thanjavur and Palakkad sub-dialects. Other sub-dialects include Ashtagrama Iyer Tamil, Mysore Vadama Iyer Tamil, Mandyam Tamil and Hebbar ...
Garhwali. Garhwali (गढ़वळि, IPA: [gɜɽʱʋɜɭiˑ], in native pronunciation) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Central Pahari subgroup. It is primarily spoken by over 2.5 million Garhwali people in the Garhwal region of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas. Map of Garhwal region where Garhwali is widely ...
Malayalam (/ ˌmæləˈjɑːləm /; [ 9 ]മലയാളം, Malayāḷam, IPA: [mɐlɐjaːɭɐm] ⓘ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India.