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Languages in India
The number of languages recognised by the Indian
Constitution is
22
At the inception of Indian constitution in 1950, the
number of recognised languages was
14
The languages which were added to the Eighth
Schedule are
Sindhi, Konkani, Nepali,
Manipuri, Maithili, Dogri, Bodo
and Santhali.
Number of identifiable mother tongues as per
Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation report of 2011
234
The first language to be conferred the status of a
Classical Language
Tamil
Other languages which have been conferred the
status of a Classical Language
Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam,
Telugu and Odia
The official language of Nagaland is
English
The official language of Jammu and Kashmir
Urdu
The official language of Goa
Konkani
The official language of the Supreme Court and
High Court as prescribed by the Constitution of
English
India is
The principal languages of Lakshdweep are
Jeseri (Dweep Bhasha) and
Mahal
Foreign language commonly spoken in Puducherry
(formerly Pondicherry) is
French
The Indian language known as the 'Italian of the
Telugu
East' is
The principal languages of the Andaman & Nicobar Hindi, Nicobarese, Bengali,
islands are
Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu.
English is not in the list of recognised languages
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List of Languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution
LANGUAGE
PREDOMINANTLY SPOKEN IN
RECOGNISED
1. Assamese
Assam
1950
2. Bengali
West Bengal
1950
3. Bodo
Assam, West Bengal
2003
4. Dogri
Jammu, Himachal Pradesh
2003
5. Gujarati
Gujarat
1950
6. Hindi
Most parts of Northern States
1950
7. Kashmiri
Jammu and Kashmir
1950
8. Kannada
Karnataka
1950
9. Konkani
Goa and parts of Karnataka
1992
10. Malayalam Kerala
1950
11. Manipuri
Manipur
1992
12. Marathi
Maharashtra
1950
13. Maithili
Parts of Bihar
2003
14. Nepali
Sikkim and parts of West Bengal
1992
15. Odia
Odisha
1950
16. Punjabi
Punjab, Chandigarh
1950
17. Sanskrit
1950
18. Sindhi
Scattered in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra
1967
19. Santhali
Spoken by Santhal tribe in Jharkhand, Bihar, W.B. 2003
20. Tamil
Tamilnadu, Puducherry
1950
21. Telugu
Andhra Pradesh
1950
22. Urdu
Northern India
1950
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The total number of languages in the world as
7105
recorded by Ethnologue, the journal that chronicles
the languages of the world
The languages having the highest number of
Chinese (Mandarin)
speakers in the world
The languages having the second highest number of
speakers in the world
Spanish
The languages having the third, fourth and fifth
English, Hindi and Arabic
highest number of speakers in the world
respectively
The official language of Pakistan
Urdu
The language having the largest number of native
Punjabi
speakers in Pakistan
The official language of Bhutan
Dzongkha
The official language of Israel
Hebrew
The official languages of Switzerland
German, (63.7%), French
(20.4%), Italian (6.5%) and
Romansch (0.5%)
Institutions for promotion of Languages
INSTITUTION
LOCATION
Central Institute of Indian Languages
Mysore, Karnataka
Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya Wardha, Maharashtra
English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad, A.P.
Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
New Delhi
Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth
New Delhi
Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth
Tirupathi
Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Hyderabad
Central Institute of Classical Tamil
Chennai
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Links
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