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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 ...
At a tourist site in Bengaluru – Top to bottom, the languages are Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam. English and many other European languages are also provided here. In British India, English was the sole language used for administrative purposes as well as for higher education purposes.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Arabic is sometimes considered a single language centred on Modern Standard Arabic , other authors consider its mutually unintelligible varieties separate languages. [ 1 ]
A danger sign in India containing 8 language, all using different scripts. The Constitution of India designates the official languages of India as Hindi and English. [1] The number of bilingual speakers in India is 314.9 million, which is 26% of the population in 2011. [2]
Hindi Divas – the official day to celebrate Hindi as a language. Languages of India; Languages with official status in India; Indian states by most spoken scheduled languages; List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin; List of Hindi channels in Europe (by type) List of languages by number of native speakers in India
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.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
India (with 21 other regional languages) Nogai: Dagestan (as one of the Dagestan peoples languages; with Russian) [69] Karachay–Cherkessia (state language; with Abaza, Cherkess, Karachay and Russian) [67] Occitan: Catalonia, with Catalan and Spanish) Odia: India (with 21 other regional languages) Odisha; Ossetic (Digor and Iron dialects):