Indian Languages

In India 22 total Indian languages are recognized by Indian Constitution and there are total 31 number of languages in India have received the status of official languages. There are as many as 880 languages spoken across India. 31 languages have been adopted by different states and union territories giving them the status of official languages. However, there is no national language of India.

This is also not true that India has its two official languages, Hindi and English. The official language of India is Hindi in its original Devanagari script. Constitution of India clearly sates that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. It is also mentioned in Article 343 of the Indian Constitution that English language shall continue to be used for all official purposes of the Union.

That means Hindi is the official language of the Republic of India and English will be used as associate/provisional language for all official purposes.

Grammar and Writing

The majority of India’s languages have their own specific alphabets, except for Punjabi, Kashmiri, Urdu and Sindhi, which use slightly variant versions of the Arabic script. Hindi and other Indian languages use the Devanagari script that is written from left to right; this is the script also used by the Nepalese.

On an interesting note, the Indian languages of Hindi and Urdu hail from the same source – their speakers can understand each other perfectly even though each has a different script. Hindi uses the Devanagari alphabet while Urdu relies on the Persian-Arabic alphabet.

List of Official Languages are There in India

List of 22 languages which have been given the grade of National Languages.

List of 10 Additional Official Languages of the State Sikkim for the Preservation of Culture and Tradition