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General information: Languages of India

Subject Information

1. The number of individual languages listed. 452 (438 are living languages and 14 have no known speakers)

2. The official languages of the Republic.Standard Hindi and English (English is the secondary official

language.)

3.

Have 22 official languages of India.

Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,

Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Nepali, Oriya, Eastern

Panjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

4.

The individual states can legislate their own official languages.For example, the state of Maharashtra has Marathi as its sole official

language, the state of Punjab has Punjabi as its sole official language.

5.

The number of native speakers.

1.

Hindi : 329,518,087 (1991 census), 422,048,642 (2001 census)

2.

Bengali : 69,595,738 (1991 census), 83,369,769 (2001 census)

3. Telugu : 66,017,615 (1991 census), 74,002,856 (2001 census)

4.

Marathi : 62,481,681 (1991 census), 71,936,894 (2001 census)

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Specific information: Languages of India

Languages Information

Hindi[ ]

- Hindi is official languages.

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258 million people in India reported theirnative language to be "Hindi"(2001

Indian census)

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Hindi is the official language of the following states:Bihar,Jharkhand,

Uttarakhand,Madhya Pradesh,Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh,Chhattisgarh,

Himachal Pradesh,Haryana andDelhi.

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Some sentence.

Namaste / Namaskar => Hello.

Apka subhanam kya hai => What your name?

Mera nam .hai=> My name is ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharkhandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttarakhandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarhhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himachal_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haryanahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haryanahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himachal_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhattisgarhhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajasthanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhya_Pradeshhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttarakhandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharkhandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biharhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language

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Marathi[]

- 72 million speakers in 2001.

- Standard Marathi is theofficial language of the State of Maharashtra.

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Some sentence.

(Namaskr.) => Hello.

(Dhanyavd.) => Thank you.

?(Tumhkase ht?) => What do you do?

Pali [Pli]

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It is the language of many of the earliest extantBuddhist scriptures.

- Some chants.

Araham samm-sambuddho bhagavBuddham bhagavantam

abhivdemi

The Lord, the Perfectly Enlightened and Blessed One, I pay homage to

the Buddha, the Awakened One, the Blessed One.

Svkkhto bhagavatdhammo Dhammam namassmi

The Teaching, well expounded by the Blessed One, I pay homage to the

Dhamma.

Supatipanno bhagavato svakasagho Sagham nammi

The Sangha, the Blessed One's disciples have practiced well, I pay

homage to the Sangha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhismhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language

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