Languages of India - The languages of India

India is rich in languages, boasting not only the indigenous sprouting of Dravidian and Indo-Aryan tongues, but of the absorption of Middle-Eastern and European influences as well. Distinct, often ancient, and rich literary traditions are to be found in several languages, among them Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Telugu, and Urdu, and not to mention two Classical languages of the world, Tamil and Sanskrit. Languages of India - The languages of India. While 22 major languages are recognized a ...

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While 22 major languages are recognized as "Official Languages" by the Constitution of India, Hindi, in the Devanagari script, is often, undeservingly and wrongly assumed by many people in india to be the only national language of the federal government of India. This, however is not fact. While Hindi has been adopted along with English as the official language of the central govt., no special status is bestowed on either hindi or any other language as the sole 'national' languages of India. Hindi is the mother tongue of 18% of the pe ...

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Indian languages have corresponding distinct alphabets. The two major families are those of the Dravidian languages and those of the Indo-Aryan languages, the former largely confined to the south and the latter to the north. With the exception of Urdu the alphabets of all these languages are native to India. There are those scholars who believe the scripts of the Northern languages (like Sanskrit, Bengali, Hindi and Punjabi) to be distant derivations of the Aramaic alphabet, though this is a disputed theory primarily because the number and grouping of sounds and letters are so radically different.< ...

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Languages of India, Languages of India - The languages of India, Languages of India - Alphabets of Indian languages, Languages of India - Phonetic alphabet, Languages of India - Urdu alphabet, Languages of India - List of Indian Languages

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