Languages In India

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Languages In India

India is a country which has with her at least 1652 languages spoken by people as their mother tongue, while experts are of opinion that there are many thousands of languages and dialects practiced at various part of this wide and large country,  the Language Hindi being spoken by 41% of the people, which has made the country opting it as the Country’s  National language, under the provisions of the Constitution of India, and the script to  be in Devnagari which is the common form of Hindi writing.

The remaining part of the people speaking different languages, particularly in the East, Bengali being the language and the southern part of the country speaking four distinct and different Dravidian languages, viz., Tamil, Telugu, Kanada and Malayalam, apart from Tulu in some region,  each of these languages spoken predominantly in these States, which are in fact formed on the basis of  the language factor only, even ignoring other aspects of  Geographical advantages, the Central Government has opted to pronounce English also as the Official language, which provides a beautiful link among  all the citizens of the country hailing from different regions.

In fact, the most of the  Languages of India have emanated from several language family sources , the majority of them  from  the Indo-Aryan languages, which can be considered as a part of Indo European languages, spoken by almost 74% of Indians , apart from the Dravidian languages spoken by 23% of Indians in the southern part of the country having different origins, the remaining languages belonging to the Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic, and a few minor language families from a few other unknown sources.

Starting with 14, today there are about 22 official languages in the Country, however, the legal sanction for pronouncing some language as official has been stabilized through some parliamentary process, there are claims for forming separate States on the basis of language spoken by some areas , which have erupted issues in some States in the form of political pressures.

Many people in India are also concerned with the Language Sanskrit, which was the language of the vedic period in this country, the language in which the great epics of the country Ramayan and Mahabharat had been scripted, becoming almost extinct, while a section of people who love this language are making  best efforts to revamp  and rejuvenate this language.

With Hindi declared as the Country’s Official language, most of the States in India, have the regional languages as their official language, along with English, as a second official language, it is another interesting point that there are different dialects for the same language in different parts of the region or State, in some cases quite different from the basic language pattern.

 

Languages In Andhra Pradesh

Telugu | Banjara | Urdu

Languages In Arunachal Pradesh

Assamese | English

Languages In Assam

Assamese | Bodo | Karbi

Languages In Bihar

Maithili | Bihari

Languages In Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarhi

Languages In Goa

Konkani | Marathi | Portuguese

Languages In Gujarat

Gujarati

Languages In Haryana

Haryanvi | Punjabi

Languages In Himachal Pradesh

Himachali | Dogri | Kangri

Languages In Jammu And Kashmir

Dogri | Kashmiri | Urdu

Languages In Jharkhand

Nagpuri | Santali | Angika | Sadri | Bhojpuri

Languages In Karnataka

Kannada | Tulu | Kodava Takk

Languages In Kerala

Malayalam | Kachchi | Kadar | Koraga | Muduga

Languages In Madhya Pradesh

Bundelkhandi | Malwi | Bagheli | Avadhi

Languages In Maharashtra

Marathi | Konkani

Languages In Manipur

Manipuri

Languages In Meghalaya

Khasi | Pnar | Garo

Languages In Mizoram

Mizo

Languages In Nagaland

English

Languages In Orissa

Oriya

Languages In Punjab

Punjabi

Languages In Rajasthan

Marwari | Shekawati | Mewati | Harauti

Languages In Sikkim

Nepali

Languages In Tamil Nadu

Tamil

Languages In Tripura

Kokborok

Languages In Uttar Pradesh

Khari Boli | Urdu | Bhojpuri

Languages In Uttarakhand

Garhwali | Kumaoni

Languages In West Bengal

Bengali

 

 

 

 

 

 


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