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Introduction - Official Language
• The Indian Constitution (Article 343) declares Hindi to be the official
language of the Union. Hindi is also the mother tongue of about 20% of
the Indian population, living in the area known as the 'Hindi-belt' or the
'cow-belt' of northern India.
• This includes the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal,
Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Haryana and
Himachal Pradesh also have Hindi as their official language.
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• English language is the commonly used official language of India. It enjoys a
special status and remains the additional official language of India. It is also
the authoritative legislative and judicial language.
• Apart from the more widely spoken English and Hindi, there are the various
regional languages as well. In fact, each state of India has its own official
language, apart from the numerous dialects.
• However, the 8th schedule of the Constitution of India lists 22 such regional
languages only, giving them official status.
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Vocabulary
Linguistic
of or belonging to language
Dialects
a variety of a language that is distinguished from othervarieties of the same
language by features of phonology, grammar,and vocabulary, and by its use
by a group of speakers who are set offfrom others geographically or socially.
Regional
of or relating to a particular region, district, area, or part, as of acountry; sec
tional; local
Constitution
the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation,state, corp
oration, or the like, is governed.
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Different languages
Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Dogri
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
A language of Assam that's spoken by nearly 60 percent of the State's
population.
An official language of West Bengal, now spoken by nearly 200
million people in West Bengal and in Bangladesh.
It is the language spoken by the Bodo people of Assam and comes
under the Assam-Burmese group of languages
Mainly spoken by the people of Jammu region
It is the official language of Gujarat. 70 percent of the State's
population speak Gujarati, it is the most spread language not only in
India but also abroad.
The official language of India, accent and dialect differs with different
regions but almost every Indian has a working knowledge of Hindi.
A language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's
population. It belongs to the Dravidian family.
Though the language is mistaken as a state language of Kashmir only
55 per cent of the state's population speak Kashmiri.
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Spoken in the Konkan region stretched across Maharashtra,
Goa and Karnataka.
Mostly spoken in the parts of Bihar and the eastern Terai
Maithili
region of Nepal
The state language of Kerala. It is the youngest of all developed
Malayalam languages in the Dravidian family.
Konkani
Manipuri/
Meitei
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
official language of state of Manipur.
An official language of Maharashtra. It has a fully developed
literature of the modern type.
The official language of Nepal, it is also spoken in some north
eastern parts of India
A branch of the Indo-Aryan family, is the official language of
the State of Orissa.
The official language of the State of Punjab. It is written in
Gurmukhi script, created by the Sikh Guru, Angad.
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Sanskrit
Santhali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
The classical language of India that has lost it's value in the modern
world. It is also one of the oldest languages in the world- perhaps the
oldest to be recorded. All the ancient scripts are found to be written in
the same language.
Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of
Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)
Is spoken by a great number of people in the Northwest frontier of the
Indian sub-continent comprising parts of India and Pakistan.
The State language of Tamil Nadu. Tamil literature goes back to
Centuries before the Christian era and is spoken by more than 73
million people. It belongs to the Dravidian language family.
A language of Andhra Pradesh. It is numerically the biggest linguistic
unit in India.
The state language of Jammu and Kashmir and is spoken by more than
28 million people in India. Urdu and Hindi have proceeded from the
same source. Urdu is written in the Persio - Arabic script and contains
many words from the Persian language.
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