National Languages of India: Check all Official and Minority Languages

India has different traditions, ethnic cultures, and languages. The different languages spoken in India belong to different language families. One of the major languages spoken is Indo-Aryan languages which is spoken by 78.05% of Indians. India has different groups of people with 28 states and 8 Union Territories. These states and territories have various languages which change every km. In this article, we will be discussing the national language of India. There is no definite national language of India. The eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution of India lists the official language of India. There are more than 100s languages spoken in India but according to the 8 schedules there are 22 languages that are scheduled and Hindi and English are official languages.

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National Languages of India:

Below is the list of all the Scheduled languages in India. Also, check the states in which these languages are spoken and the number of people who speak these languages:
 

Sr. No.	Language	Recognition in State	Number of People speaking the Language
1	Bengali	West Bengal, Tripura	300 million
2	Assamese	Assam, Arunachal Pradesh	23 million
3	Dogri	The official language of Jammu and Kashmir	2.6 million
4	Bodo	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Gujarat	1.4 million
5	Hindi	Madhya Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, Andaman, and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand	322 million
6	Kashmiri	Jammu and Kashmir	7 million
7	Kannada	Karnataka	43 million
8	Maithili	Bihar, Jharkhand	33.9 million
9	Manipuri	Manipur	1.8 million
10	Nepali	Sikkim and West Bengal
11	Marathi	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Maharashtra, Goa	83 million
12	Punjabi	The official language of Punjab and Chandigarh, 2nd official language of Delhi and Haryana
13	Santali	Spoken by Santhal people mainly in the state of Jharkhand as well as in the states of Assam, Tripura, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Odisha	2.6 million
14	Sanskrit	Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand
15	Tamil	Tamil Nadu, Puducherry	75 million
16	Sindhi	Gujarat and Maharashtra, especially Ulhasnagar	1.68 million
17	Urdu	Jharkhand, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, Jammu, and Kashmir, Telangana	230 million
18	Telugu	Telangana, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh		82 million
19	Odia	The official language of Orissa		35 million
20	Malayalam	Lakshadweep, Puducherry, Kerala,		34 million
21	Konkani	Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, and Kerala (The Konkan Coast), Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu		2.3 million
22	Gujarati	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Gujarat		55.5 million

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