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Bookmark or Share- Languages in India - Map, Scheduled Languages, States official ...Languages belonging to the two major language families - Indo Aryan and Dravidian - are spoken by more than 90% of the people of India. Know more about the languages of India with India...
- Languages of India - New World EncyclopediaThe SIL Ethnologue lists over 400 languages for India; 24 of these languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, and 114 by more than 10,000. Three millennia of political and social contact have resulted in mutual influence among the four language families in India and South Asia.
- Indian languages | Definition & Facts | BritannicaIndian languages, languages spoken in the state of India, generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austroasiatic (Munda in particular), and Sino-Tibetan (Tibeto-Burman in particular).
- What Languages Are Spoken In India? - WorldAtlasMost Indian languages are classified into one of four groups: Afro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Sino-Tibetan. With more than 1.35 billion people, the Republic of India has the second-highest population in the world.
- List of languages by number of native speakers in IndiaIndia has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. [11] As per the 2011 Census of India, languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam. [12] [13]
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