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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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