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Hindi (excl. Urdu) Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: 345 million 266 million: 610 million Spanish (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 485 million 74 million: 559 million French (excl. creole languages) Indo-European: Romance: 81 million 229 million: 310 million Modern Standard Arabic (excl. dialects) Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: 0: 274 million ...
- Lists of Languages
Published lists. SIL International's Ethnologue: Languages...
- First-language
The monument to the mother tongue (ana dili) in Nakhchivan,...
- Creole Languages
An English-based creole language (often shortened to English...
- Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi, commonly referred to as Hindi, is an...
- Bengali
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ),...
- Modern Standard Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA)...
- Thai
A native Thai speaker, recorded in Bangkok. Thai, or Central...
- Russian
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in...
- Urdu
Etymology. The name Urdu was first used by the poet Ghulam...
- Lists of 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. [11] 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.
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Despite some misconceptions, Hindi is not the national language of India; the Constitution of India does not give any language the status of national language. [15] [16] The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages, [17] which have been referred to as scheduled languages and given recognition, status and official encouragement.
Languages with at least 50 million first-language speakers; Language Native speakers (in millions) Language family Branch Mandarin Chinese: 941 Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: Spanish: 486 Indo-European: Romance: English: 380 Indo-European: Germanic: Hindi: 345 Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: Bengali: 237 Indo-European: Indo-Aryan: Portuguese: 236 Indo ...
LanguageNative Speakers (in Millions)Language FamilyBranch941486380345These 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.
उपकरण. भारत के राज्य एवं केन्द्रशासित प्रदेश तथा उनमें सर्वाधिक प्रयुक्त भाषाएँ. भारत की आधिकारिक भाषा, हिन्दी है और अंग्रेज़ी सहायक या गौण आधिकारिक भाषा है; भारत के राज्य अपनी आधिकारिक भाषा (ए) विधिक रूप से घोषित कर सकते हैं। न तो भारतीय संविधान और न ही कोई भारतीय कानून किसी राष्ट्रभाषा को परिभाषित करता है।.
