which languages are spoken in India?

Question



who knows what language is spoken in India? is there a list of languages spoken in India?

Answer 1

list of languages spoken in India:

 

language	Language Code	Language status	Lang. Pop. (%)	Wiki Info
Hindi	hi	Official	41%	See link
English	en	Official	11%	See link
Bengali	bn	official regional	8.1%	See link
Telugu	te	official regional	7.2%	See link
Marathi	mr	official regional	7%	See link
Tamil	ta	official regional	5.9%	See link
Urdu	ur	official regional	5%	See link
Gujarati	gu	official regional	4.5%	See link
Kannada	kn	official regional	3.7%	See link
Oriya	or	official regional	3.2%	See link
Malayalam	ml	official regional	3.2%	See link
Punjabi (Gurmukhi)	pa_Guru	official regional	2.8%	See link
Bhojpuri	bho		2.3%	See link
Awadhi	awa		1.9%	See link
Assamese	as	official regional	1.3%	See link
Marwari	mwr		1.2%	See link
Maithili	mai	official regional	1.2%	See link
Magahi	mag		1.2%	See link
Haryanvi	bgc		1.2%	See link
Chhattisgarhi	hne		1.1%	See link
Deccan	dcc		1%	See link
Nepali	ne	official regional	0.6%	See link
Kanauji	bjj		0.6%	See link
Santali	sat	official regional	0.6%	See link
Mewati	wtm		0.5%	See link
Rangpuri	rkt		0.4%	See link
Kashmiri (Arabic)	ks_Arab	official regional	0.4%	See link
Konkani	kok	official regional	0.4%	See link

Answer 2

language	Language Code	Language status	Lang. Pop. (%)	Wiki Info
Shekhawati	swv		0.3%	See link
Lambadi	lmn		0.3%	See link
Garhwali	gbm		0.3%	See link
Sindhi (Arabic)	sd_Arab	official regional	0.3%	See link
Gondi (Telugu)	gon_Telu		0.2%	See link
Kumaoni	kfy		0.2%	See link
Dogri	doi		0.2%	See link
Kurukh	kru		0.2%	See link
Waddar	wbq		0.2%	See link
Tulu	tcy		0.2%	See link
Sadri	sck		0.2%	See link
Kangri	xnr		0.2%	See link
Wagdi	wbr		0.2%	See link
Khandesi	khn		0.2%	See link
Bodo	brx		0.1%	See link
Nimadi	noe		0.1%	See link
Bhili	bhb		0.1%	See link
Manipuri	mni		0.1%	See link
Rajasthani	raj		0.1%	See link
Ho	hoc		0.1%	See link
Mewari	mtr		0.1%	See link
Mundari (Bengali)	unr_Beng		0.1%	See link
Bhilali	bhi		0.1%	See link
Hadothi	hoj		0.1%	See link
Khasi	kha	official regional	0.1%	See link
Kachchi	kfr		0.1%	See link
Garo	grt		0.1%	See link
Munda (Bengali)	unx_Beng		Smaller then 0.01%	See link

 

Answer 3

language	Language Code	Language status	Lang. Pop. (%)	Wiki Info
Bagheli	bfy		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Sirmauri	srx		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Saurashtra	saz		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Chakma	ccp		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Sindhi (Devanagari)	sd_Deva	official regional	Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Badaga	bfq		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Riang	ria		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Tibetan	bo		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Balti	bft		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Braj	bra		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Lepcha	lep		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Limbu (Devanagari)	lif_Deva		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Bateri	btv		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Lahnda	lah		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Sanskrit	sa	official regional	Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Khamti	kht		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Divehi	dv		Smaller then 0.01%	See link
Dzongkha	dz		Smaller then 0.01%	See link

 

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country.

An official regional language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular region in the country.

 

According to the The Unicode Consortium the overall literacy rate (The ability to read and write) in India is 62%.

 

More information about languages spoken in India (see links):

Information links (Principal Languages, Immigrant Languages, Language Counts, etc.) about Languages spoken within India - See link.

A complete India's languages summaries - See link.

Map showing the locations of languages in India - See link.

 

Sources

The Unicode Consortium - See link.