Languages Spoken in India

The 22 official languages are :

1. Assamese     2. Bengali     3. Bodo     4. Dogri     5. Gujarati

6. Hindi     7. Kannada    8. Kashmiri    9. Konkani    10. Maithili 
11. Malayalam    12. Manipuri    13. Marathi    14. Nepali    15. Oriya

16. Punjabi    17. Sanskrit    18. Santhali    19. Sindhi    20. Tamil

21. Telugu    22. Urdu

• Gujarati – The state Language of Gujarat and Union Territories of Dadar and Nagar Haveli
• Punjabi – The state language of Punjab
• Bengali- The state language of West Bengal
• Assamese – The state language of Assam
• Dogri, Urdu – The state language of Jammu and Kashmir
• Oriya – The state language of state of Odisha
• Marathi – The state language of Maharashtra
• Kannada – The state language of Karnataka
• Tamil – The state language of Tamil Nadu
• Telugu – It is the state language of Andhra Pradesh.
• Malayalam – It is the state language of Kerala
• Konkani – The state language of Goa
• Manipuri – The state language of Manipur
• Khasi – The state language of Meghalaya
• Mizo – The state language of Mizoram
• English – The state language of Nagaland
• Urdu and Telugu are also the state languages of the newly formed state of Telangana

• India has 22 officially recognised languages since 1992.

• English is recognised as a subsidiary official language, though it used for official purposes along with Hindi.

• India has around 2000 dialects.

• Hindi is our national language.

• Hindi is written in Devanagri script.

• Hindi has a number of dialects like Khariboli, Bundeli, Brajbhasha, Awadhi, Marwari, Maithili and Bhojpuri.

• Urdu, Sindhi and Kashmiri languages are written in the Perso-Arabic script.

• Punjabi is written in Gurumukhi script.

• Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Tulu are all Dravidian languages.

• Most of the Indian languages apart from the Dravidian languages belong to the Indo-Aryan group.

• Telugu is the largest spoken language of all the Dravidian languages.

• The 8th schedule was added to the Constitution, to indicate all the officially recognised languages.

• Tamil is the oldest and purest language of the Dravidian family.

• Bengali, the official language of West Bengal emerged as a separate language around 1000 CE.

• Sanskrit is the classical language of India. It is one of the oldest languages of the world.

• Rig Veda, one of the oldest book in Sanskrit was composed around 2000 B.C.E.