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Main languages of India and their relative size according to how many speakers each has. Until the Twenty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India in 1967, the country recognised 14 official regional languages.
India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam.
The Constitution of India now recognizes 23 languages, spoken in different parts of the country. These consist of English plus 22 Indian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Meitei, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Nov 19, 2019 · For the convenience of people, the Constitution of India has recognised 22 languages in the eighth schedule. These are known as Scheduled Languages and constitute the major languages of the...
Indian languages, languages spoken in the state of India, generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austroasiatic ( Munda in particular), and Sino-Tibetan ( Tibeto-Burman in particular). Of the hundreds of languages spoken in India, 22 are mentioned in the ...
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Travel around India, and you’ll hear a multitude of languages and musical dialects. In fact, it may feel like you hear hundreds. You wouldn’t be wrong. So how many Indian languages are there? While India has 22 separate official languages, it is home to a total of 121 languages and 270 mother tongues. It’s also home to the world’s ...
He had listed 179 languages and 544 dialects of pre-independence India in 11 volumes and 19 parts of Linguistic Survey of India. Therefore, to align the vast majority of mother tongues of the 1961 Census to the pattern of classified languages and dialects by Grierson, it was decided to study the returns of the 1961 Census.