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Telugu and Urdu are the official languages of Hyderabad, while English is commonly used. [13] [14] Telugu in Hyderabad has a varied dialect called the Telangana dialect, [15] and the Urdu spoken in the city is called Deccani Urdu. [16]
Hyderabad (Telugu: Haidarābād , pronounced [ˈɦaɪ̯dəɾaːbaːd] ⓘ; Urdu: [ˈɦɛːdəɾaːbaːd]) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana.It occupies 650 km 2 (250 sq mi) on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India.
Telugu, one of the classical languages of India, is the most widely spoken and the primary official language of the state while Urdu is the second official language. The economy of Telangana is the ninth-largest in India, with a gross state domestic product (GSDP) of ₹ 16.502 trillion (US$190 billion) and has a GSDP per capita of ₹ 390,564 ...
Telugu is one of the languages designated as a classical language by the Government of India. It is the 14th most spoken native language in the world. [10] Modern Standard Telugu is based on the dialect of erstwhile Krishna, Guntur, East Godavari and West Godavari districts of Coastal Andhra. [14]
There are regional variants in the dialect. The dialect spoken by local non-Telugu Hyderabadis is influenced by Hyderabadi Urdu. The dialect spoken in the interiors of Telangana has localized influences and varies with community. The border regions have mutual influence with languages on the other side of the border.
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.
As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631. [1] [2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.