Official languages: Hindi English

Official languages Two languages are the languages used by the central administration: 1. 2.

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Recognized national languages of India A total of 22 languages are recognized by the Constitution of India: official language language of Assam Assam Assamese — official official language language of Tripura Tripura and West West Bengal Bengal 2. Bengali  — official 3. Bodo — official language of Assam official language language of Jammu Jammu and Kashmir  Kashmir  4. Dogri — official official language language of Dadra Dadra and Nagar Nagar Haveli, Haveli, Daman Daman and Diu Diu and Gujarat Gujarat 5. Gujarati  — official official language language of Arunachal Arunachal Pradesh, Pradesh, Andaman Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Islands, Bihar, 6. Hindi  — official Chandi Chandiga garh rh,, Chhat Chhatti tisg sgar arh, h, Delhi Delhi,, Hary Haryana ana,, Himac Himachal hal Prad Prades esh, h, Jhar Jharkha khand, nd, Madhy Madhyaa Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal official language language of Karnataka Karnataka 7. Kannada — official 8. Kashmiri — official language of Jammu and Kashmir  9. Konkani — official language of Goa and Mangalore official language language of Kerala Kerala and Lakshadweep Lakshadweep 10. Malayalam  — official 11. Manipuri or Meithei — official language of Manipur  official language language of Maharasht Maharashtra ra 12. Marathi — official official language language of Sikkim Sikkim 13. Nepali — official official language language of Orissa Orissa 14. Oriya — official language of Punjab and Chandigarh, Chandigarh, second official official language of Delhi 15. Punjabi  — official language and Haryana language of Hinduism, Hinduism, require required d teaching in in many schools schools 16. Sanskrit  — language 17. Santali - language of the Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and Chattisgarh) 18. Sindhi - language of the Sindhi community official language language of Tamil Tamil Nadu and and Pondicherry Pondicherry 19. Tamil — official official language language of Andhra Andhra Pradesh Pradesh 20. Telugu — official official language language of Jammu Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Pradesh, Delhi and Uttar  21. Urdu  — official Pradesh 1.

Other Important State languages These languages are state official languages but are not yet recognized as national languages: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Kokborok  - official language of Tripura Mizo - official language of Mizoram Khasi - official language of Meghalaya Garo - official language of Meghalaya

Other popular languages of India These languages have over 5 million speakers but no official status. Many are often considered sub-varieties of Hindi.

Bihari languages These three Bihari languages also have over 5 million speakers but no official status. They were once mistakenly thought to be dialects of Hindi, but have been more recently shown to be part of  the Eastern Group of Indic languages, along with Bengali, Assamese, and Oriya. 1. 2. 3.

Angika — language of Bihar, Spoken largely in the Northern and Southern part of Bihar, Major part of Jharkhand and Maldah district of West Bengal Bhojpuri — language of Bihar  Magadhi — language of southern Bihar 

Rajasthani languages Rajasthani dialect is spoken in state of Rajasthan by more than fifty million people, the dialect changes from district to district but people could communicate with each other even if they are from different districts and have different dilects.The main varities are as such. 1. 2. 3.

Marwari — language of Marwar. The region including Jodhpur,Nagour and Bikaner. Mewari — language of Mewar. The region including Udaipur, Chittor and Kota-Bundi. Shekhavati — language of Shekhavati. The region including Sikar, Churu, Jhunjhunu.

Other languages 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Bhili (Bhil tribals) Gondi (Gond tribals) Kodava, spoken in the Kodagu district of Karnataka Kutchi — language of Kutch, a region in Gujarat Tulu — spoken by Tulu people of Karnataka and Kerala Sankethi — spoken by Sankethi people in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala

The Constitution of India lists 18 regional languages.

Minority languages of India These languages have fewer than one million speakers: 1.

Mahl — language of Minicoy, spoken in the island of Minicoy.