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There are two main language families in India, the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian languages. About 69% of Indians speak an Indo-Arayan language, and about 26% speak a Dravidian language. Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic group. Around 5% of the people speak a Tibeto-Burman language. Hindi is the official language in ...
Anthropological Survey of India, identified 75 "major languages" out of a total of 325 languages used in Indian households. Ethnologue, too reports India as a home for 398 languages, including 387 living and 11 extinct languages. Most importantly, as early as in the1990s, India was reported to have 32 languages with one million or more speakers.
TITUS language map India: Language list . Languages of India: Indo-Aryan Languages: Central Group: Eastern Hindī Awadhī Baghēlī Chattīsgaṛhī ...
Telugu is the official language of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. It is one of the 22 languages under schedule 8 of the constitution of India. It is one of the official languages of the union territories of Puducherry. Telugu is a protected language in South Africa.
An additional official language in West Bengal [35] [36] Very widely spoken in Northern India, and, with English, one of the official languages of the Government of India. 1950. Devanagari. Kannada. 43.7. Official language of Karnataka. 1950. Kannada script. Kashmiri.
Langages of India. • Language Information Service, edited by the Central Institute of Indian Languages. • The languages of India, Andovar (2017) • An introduction to languages used in India by Vijendra Pratap Singh. • Language map of India, Translators without borders (2020) • Linguistic survey of India by George Abraham Grierson (1919)
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages [a]) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal . [1]
