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The languages of Uttar Pradesh primarily belong to two zones in the Indo-Aryan languages, Central and East. After the state's official language Hindi (and co-official Urdu which is mutually intelligible), the Bhojpuri language is the second most spoken language with 25.5 million speakers or 11% of the state's population. [ 1 ]
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.
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 ...
Hindi became the language of state administration with the Uttar Pradesh Official Language Act of 1951. [300] A 1989 amendment to the act added Urdu , as an additional language of the state. [ 301 ] Linguistically, the state spreads across the Central, East-Central, and Eastern zones of the Indo Aryan languages .
States and union territories of India by the most commonly spoken (L1) first language [3] [a]. The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi speaking states, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi ...
As of 2011, with an estimated population of 199,581,477. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India. [2] Uttar Pradesh occupies 6.88 per cent of the India's land surface area but is home to 16.49 per cent of the India's population. [3] [4] As of 2011, 64 cities in the state had a population of over 100,000 people.
Although Uttar Pradesh's primary official language is Hindi, the most commonly spoken language is colloquial Hindustani. [178] Indian English is also well understood and is widely used for business and administrative purposes, as a result of India's British heritage and Commonwealth tradition, as well as globalisation. The Urdu language is also ...
Purvanchal (lit. ' Eastern region ') is the region of eastern Uttar Pradesh. [1] Bhojpuri, Awadhi, and Bagheli are spoken. [2] Gorakhpur and Varanasi are important cities in this region.