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The Eighth Schedule of the Constitution defined 14 languages in 1950: [4] Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. [5] In 1967, the 21st amendment to the constitution added Sindhi to the Eighth Schedule.
The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India lists the official languages of the Republic of India. At the time when the Constitution was enacted, inclusion in this list meant that the language was entitled to representation on the Official Languages Commission , and that the language would be one of the bases that would be drawn upon to ...
The Ninety-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-second Amendment) Act, 2003, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Bodo, Dogri, Maithili and Santali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to 22. The Eighth Schedule lists ...
The Eighth Schedule lists languages that the Government of India has the responsibility to develop. [1] The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages. [2] The 71st Amendment, enacted in 1992, included three more languages, i.e. Konkani, Meitei (Manipuri) and Nepali.
The Eighth Schedule to the Constitution originally included 14 languages. [2] Sindhi was included by the 21st Amendment , enacted in 1967. Bodo , Dogri , Santhali and Maithili were included in the Eighth Schedule in 2004, through the 92nd Amendment , raising the total number of languages to 22.
In India, Sanskrit is among the 22 official languages of India in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. [211] In 2010, Uttarakhand became the first state in India to make Sanskrit its second official language. [212] In 2019, Himachal Pradesh made Sanskrit its second official language, becoming the second state in India to do so. [213]
It is one of the 22 scheduled languages mentioned in the Indian Constitution, [9] and the official language of the Indian state of Goa. It is also spoken in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, [10] Gujarat as well as Damaon, Diu & Silvassa. Konkani is a member of the Southern Indo-Aryan language group.
India (along with 21 other scheduled languages recognised by the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution) Mongolian: Mongolia; Montenegrin: Montenegro; Mossi: