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  2. Languages of India - Wikipedia

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    It is the sole official language in Manipur and is one of the official languages of India. It is one of the two Sino-Tibetan languages with official status in India, beside Bodo. It has been recognized as one of the advanced modern languages of India by the National Sahitya Academy for its rich literature. [167]

  3. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    Austroasiatic languages include the Santal and Munda languages of eastern India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and the Mon–Khmer languages spoken by the Khasi and Nicobarese in India and in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and southern China. The Austroasiatic languages arrived in east India around 4000-3500 ago from Southeast Asia. [99]

  4. List of languages by number of native speakers in India

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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 ...

  5. Classical languages of India - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Classical languages, or the Śāstrīya Bhāṣā or the Dhrupadī Bhāṣā (Assamese, Bengali) or the Abhijāta Bhāṣā (Marathi) or the Cemmoḻi (Tamil), is an umbrella term for the languages of India having high antiquity, and valuable, original and distinct literary heritage. [1]

  6. Sanskrit revival - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit is one of the 22 official languages in India. [12] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to have Sanskrit as its second official language. [13] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh became the second state to have Sanskrit as the second official language. [14] There are 2,360,821 total speakers of Sanskrit in India, as of 2011. [15]

  7. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Single Proto-Norse words are found on the Øvre Stabu spearhead (second half of the 2nd century) and the Vimose Comb (c. 160). 292: Mayan: Stela 29 from Tikal [78] A brief undeciphered inscription at San Bartolo is dated to the 3rd century BC. [79] 312–313: Sogdian: Ancient Letters, found near Dunhuang [80] 328: Arabic: Namara inscription: c ...

  8. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanāgarī has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi, Central Indo-Aryan languages, Konkani, Boro, and various Nepalese languages. Some of the earliest epigraphic evidence attesting to the developing Sanskrit Nāgarī script in ancient India is from the 1st to 4th century CE inscriptions discovered in ...

  9. Languages with legal status in India - Wikipedia

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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