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Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [5] [6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic 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 some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified.
Hindi is the most spoken language in India with 41% of the population being first language speakers, but the other 59% of the population speak over 30 different languages. Due to their long history, Tamil, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Odia, and Telugu have been designated classica languages.
The languages spoken in India belong mainly to two big linguistic families: the Indo-European and the Dravidian; others come mainly from the Austro-Asian and Tibetan-Burman linguistic families. ‘The Indian Language’ Is Actually 22 Separate Official Languages
Indian languages, languages spoken in the state of India, generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austroasiatic (Munda in particular), and Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman in particular).
Languages belonging to the two major language families - Indo Aryan and Dravidian - are spoken by more than 90% of the people of India. Know more about the languages of India with India...
The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 75 percent of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 25 percent). Other languages spoken in India come mainly from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates.
Hindi tops the list as the most widely spoken language in India, with over 528 million native speakers. It serves as the official language of the central government and is the primary language in several northern and central states, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.
Beginning with historical and administrative perspectives, the linguistic diversity of India is represented through maps depicting the variation in speakers’ strength of major languages, the distribution of languages by language-family, distribution of Scheduled and Non-Scheduled languages of India and the incidence of bilingualism and ...
Thirteen languages account for more than 1% of Indian population each, and between themselves for over 95%; all of them are "scheduled languages of the constitution".