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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
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.
A foreign language is a language that is not an official language of, nor typically spoken in, a specific country. Native speakers from that country usually need to acquire it through conscious learning, such as through language lessons at school, self-teaching, or attending language courses.
Southern Indian English here refers to broad varieties of Southern India. / oʊ / as monophthongal . / eɪ / as monophthongal . / ɒ / as / θ / and / ð /, respectively, as and . In addition to these, the alveolar stops and in words like water and door are often pronounced as their retroflex equivalents and respectively.
Braj Kachru divides the use of English into three concentric circles. [8]The inner circle is the traditional base of English and includes countries such as the United Kingdom and Ireland and the anglophone populations of the former British colonies of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, and various islands of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean.
English is also widely used in media and literature, and the number of English language books published annually in India is the third largest in the world after the US and UK. [126] However, English is rarely spoken as a first language, numbering only around a couple hundred-thousand people, and less than 5% of the population speak fluent ...
English classes in Moscow in 1964. English as a second or foreign language refers to the use of English by individuals whose native language is different, commonly among students learning to speak and write English.
Two former career-diplomats have served as ministers of external affairs, including K. Natwar Singh (2004–2005) who served as India's ambassador to Poland and as high commissioner to Pakistan, and the current minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar who retired as the foreign secretary.