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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. [2]
Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians. The most important language families in terms of speakers are: [ 60 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 11 ] [ 61 ]
Puri, India: Priest: 11 February 2018: Cuttack-Bhubaneswar: Latin Sr. Fidelis Thaliath S.D [37] 29 February 1929: Puthenpally, Ernakulam, Kerala 17 January 2008: Delhi, India Professed religious of the Sisters of the Destitute: 14 July 2021: Faridabad: Syro-Malabar Kantheswar Digal and companions, martyrs of Kandhamal [38] August 2008 onwards
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 February 2025. Dravidian ethnolinguistic group Ethnic group Tamils Tamilar Total population c. 77 million Regions with significant populations India 69,026,881 (2011) Sri Lanka 3,108,770 (2012) Malaysia 1,800,000 (2016) United States 238,699+ (2017) Canada 237,890 (2021) [note 2] Singapore 174,708 ...
South Indian culture refers to the cultural region typically covering the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.The idea of South India is closely linked to the Dravidian ethnic and linguistic identity and therefore it can also refer to groups in central India such as the Gondi and the Kui.
The relatively autonomous tribal groups of Northeastern India (including Khasis, Apatani and Nagas), who are mostly Austro-Asiatic or Tibeto-Burman speakers, are also considered to be tribals: this area comprises 7.5% of India's land area but 20% of its tribal population. [146]
Related ethnic groups Timbisha and Comanche The Shoshone or Shoshoni ( / ʃ oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shoh- SHOH -nee or / ʃ ə ˈ ʃ oʊ n i / ⓘ shə- SHOH -nee ), also known by the endonym Newe , are an Indigenous people of the United States with four large cultural/linguistic divisions: