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[99] [13] [19] [12] Hindi is the most commonly used scheduled language in India and is one of the two official languages of the union, [101] the other being English. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is one of 22 scheduled languages of India, also having official status in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi ...
Despite some misconceptions, Hindi is not the national language of India; the Constitution of India does not give any language the status of national language. [15] [16] The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, [17] which have been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status and official encouragement.
Following independence, the Constituent Assembly remained divided on the language issue, with some like R. V. Dulekar and Seth Govind Das favouring declaring Hindi written in Devanagari the national language of India immediately, while within the camp favouring Hindi there were divisions over whether the script of the language should be ...
Communication between states which have Hindi as an official language must be in Hindi, whereas communication between a state where Hindi is an official language and one where it is not Hindi and must be in English, or, in Hindi with an accompanying English translation (unless the receiving state agrees to dispense with the translation). [13]
Hindi and English are the official languages in India, according to Article 343(1) of the Constitution of India. [18] Gujarat High Court has stated that while a majority of people in India have accepted Hindi as a national language, there is no official record or order declaring Hindi as the national language of the country. [19] [20]
India has no national language. [371] Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. [372] [373] English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; [6] it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and ...
Post-independence Hindi became the official language of the Central Government of India along with English. Urdu has been the national and official language of Pakistan as well as the lingua franca of the country. Outside the India, Hindustani is widely understood in other parts of the Indian subcontinent and also used as a lingua franca, and ...
National language A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.)