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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 ...
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. [2]
Indian states by most spoken scheduled languages; Languages of India; Languages with legal status in India; List of languages by number of native speakers in India; Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop/Archive/Oct 2018
English continues to be an important language in India. It is used in higher education and in some areas of the Indian government. [citation needed] Hindi, which has the largest number of first-language speakers in India today, [24] serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India.
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This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
India: There are 22 official languages in the states and territories of India (Including Hindi and English, the languages with official use by the Union Government [180]). The largest, Hindi, is spoken natively by 26% of the population. [181] English is also used, although mainly in some urban parts of the country.
Combined percentages of first, second and third language speakers of Hindi and English in India from the 2011 Census. [10] Trilingualism is common in Railway Stations of India. This signboard of a ticket counter in Bhubaneswar Railway Station has text in Odia, Hindi and English. Multilingualism is also common in the international airports in India.