Languages in India : How Many Languages are Spoken in India

How Many Languages in India?. In the previous articles, we have given National Tree of India (Banyan) and How to Open a School in India. Today we are discussing official languages of India. India is a vast country, with a lot of cultural and geographical diversities. This has resulted in a number of different languages spoken across the country. Some of these languages are accepted nationally, while others are accepted as dialects of particular regions. All these languages originated from the great languages of the past, with most of them belonging to several major linguistic families, like Indo-Aryan (spoken by 70% Indians), Dravidian languages (spoken by 22% Indians), Austro-Asiatic languages and Tibeto-Burman linguistic languages

The Indian language is hugely complicated and diverse and has been shaped, like most things in India, by years of cultural variety, regional differences, race, money, religion, and war. The origins of the languages of India bring with them great stories and history which blends in with the wonder and mystery that so makes India so hard to define.

About The Indian Language

India is a country of different and contrasting cultures and its linguistic chart is just as diverse. There is no such thing as the ‘Indian language’ as there are 17 (recognized) major regional languages in India, however, the different dialects in India number several hundred and the number of actual spoken languages reach over 2500. Similarities in people’s mother tongues are easy to find making language classification a difficult issue since it is hard to prove which are just dialects of the same language or which make separate languages up.

According to the Constitution of India, there are 22 recognized national languages at the moment. The Eighth Schedule, which contains the official list of the Indian languages, originally included 14 acknowledged languages but since the 71st and the 92nd Amendments, a further 8 were added to this list.

The 22 recognized languages are as follows: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri (sometimes called Meitei), Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. The official languages of the Union of India are Hindi and English.

Indian States, their Capitals, and Languages

Sr.No	State	Capital	Major Language Spoken	Other Language Spoken
1	Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Telugu	Urdu, Hindi and Tamil
2	Arunachal Pradesh	Itanager	Bengali	Nepali, Hindi and Assamese
3	Assam	Dispur	Assamese	Bengali, Hindi, Bodo and Nepali
4	Bihar	Patna	Hindi	Maithili and Urdu
5	Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Hindi	Bengali and Oriya
6	Goa	Panaji	Konkani	Marathi, Hindi and Kannada
7	Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Gujarati	Hindi, Sindhi, Marathi and Urdu
8	Haryana	Chandigarh	Hindi	Punjabi and Urdu
9	Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Hindi	Punjabi and Nepali
11	Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)	Kashmiri	Dogri and Hindi
12	Jharkhand	Ranchi	Hindi	Santali, Bengali and Urdu
13	Karnataka	Bangalore	Kannada	Urdu, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil
14	Kerala	Trivandrum	Malayalam	None
15	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Hindi	Marathi and Urdu
16	Maharashtra	Mumbai	Marathi	Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati
17	Manipur	Imphal	Manipuri	Nepali, Hindi and Bengali
18	Meghalaya	Shillong	Bengali	Hindi and Nepali
19	Mizoram	Aizawl	Bengali	Hindi and Nepali
20	Nagaland	Kohima	Bengali	Hindi and Nepali
21	Odisha	Bhubaneswar	Oriya	Hindi, Telegu and Santali
22	Punjab	Chandigarh	Punjabi	Hindi
23	Rajasthan	Jaipur	Hindi	Punjabi and Urdu
24	Sikkim	Gangtok	Nepali	Hindi, Bengali
25	Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Tamil	Telugu, Kannada and Urdu
26	Tripura	Agartala	Bengali	Hindi
27	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Hindi	Urdu
28	Uttrakhand	Dehra Dun	Hindi	Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali
29	West Bengal	Kolkata	Bengali	Hindi, Santali, Urdu, Nepali

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