Languages of India

The constitution of the India recognizes twenty-two constitutional languages (cf Liste of the official languages of India). There exists much of other regional languages and a very great number of Dialecte S. the Indian languages use like system of different writing Semi-spelling-book S derived more or less directly from the Brâhmî, like the Devanâgarî, used (inter alia possibilities) for the Sanskrit and the Hindî.

See also: List of the official languages of India

There exist mainly two families of languages: the Indo-Aryan Languages (family of the Indo-European Languages, subbranch of the Indo-Iranian Languages) in North and the Languages dravidiennes in the South.

In addition, the English is the working language for many professions (justice, data processing, etc) as well as the language of study from approximately 5% of the population.

The official languages are (unless otherwise specified, the languages below are Indo-European languages):

Assamais ;
Bengali;
goudjerâtî ;
Hindi;
will kannara (language dravidienne);
câchemîrî ;
Konkani ;
Malayâlam (language dravidienne);
Marâthî ; local in the State of the Maharashtra
Metei (language Tibéto-Burmese E also called manipouri );
Nepalese
oriyâ;
Penjâbî ;
Sanskrit;
Sindhî ;
Tamoul (language dravidienne);
Télougou (language dravidienne);
Urdu.

The Nepalese, the Metei and the Konkani were adopted recently.

The Hindî is the principal language of 30% of the population. The central government tried to impose it in its C-W communication Devanâgarî like Lingua franca in India to replace English, but encountered a sharp opposition of the Dravidien S of the south.

See too

List of the official languages of Linguistic India
Dictionary of the languages
Languages by geographical area

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