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The following table contains the Indian states and union territories along with the most spoken scheduled languages used in the region. [1] These are based on the 2011 census of India figures except Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, whose statistics are based on the 2001 census of the then unified Andhra Pradesh.
The name Goa came to European languages via Portuguese, but its precise origin is unclear. A number of theories about its origin are centered around the Sanskrit word go (cow). [8] For example, the legend of Krishna names a mountain where he saved the cow; the mountain was named "gomāntaka", which later became Goa. Also, a port city named ...
An additional official language in West Bengal [33] [34] Major spoken language in Northern India, and one of the official languages of the Government of India along with English. 1950 Devanagari Kannada: 43.7: Official language of Karnataka. 1950 Kannada script: Kashmiri: 6.8: Official language of Jammu and Kashmir [30] 1950
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
It is the official language and co-official language in Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India respectively, and is one of the official languages of India. There were 83 million speakers of the language in 2011. [ 165 ]
List of Indian state and union territory name etymologies; List of princely states of British India (alphabetical) List of states and union territories of India by area; List of states and union territories of India by population; List of states in India by past population; List of states of India by wildlife population
English. Read; Edit; View history ... language or dialect of the same name. (Reference: Ethnologue, Languages of the ... and demonyms for states and territories of India.
Official language in: the Indian union territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, and the Indian state of Gujarat; Gumuz – Bega Spoken in: the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Gun – gungbe Official language in: Benin; Gurung – तमु क्यी Official language in: the Indian state of ...