The Indian Constitution also officially approves twenty-two regional languages for official purposes. Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spoken in India, which share many characteristics such as grammatical structure and vocabulary. Apart from these languages, Hindi is used for ...
While India has22 separate official languages, it is home to a total of121 languagesand270 mother tongues. It’s also home to the world’s oldest language, Hindi. Indian languages spoken in India As the world’s oldest language,Hindiis, unsurprisingly, the most spoken in India. Melodic and...
Of the hundreds of languages spoken in India, 22 are mentioned in the constitution of India:Assamese,Bengali(Bangla),Dogri,Gujarati,Hindi,Kashmiri,Konkani,Maithili,Marathi,Nepali,Oriya,Punjabi,Sanskrit,Sindhi, andUrduall belong to theIndo-Aryangroup of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European;Kann...
The Indian Constitution (Article 343) declares Hindi to be the official language of the Union. Hindi is also the mother tongue of about 20% of the Indian population, living in the area known as the 'Hindi-belt' or the 'cow-belt' of northern India. This includes the states of Uttar Pra...
Hindi is the national, official, andmain link language of India. English is an associate officiallanguage. The Indian Constitution also officially approves twenty-two regional languages for official purposes.Dozens of distinctly different regional languages are spokenin India, which share many ...
the Constitution of India recognizes 23 languages in India.Hindiis the official language of India, with 22 additional languages scheduled or formally recognized. English is an accepted co-official language. The 2011 Indian census notes 121 languages spoken in the country; many other languages are sp...
Hindi is a language spoken by less than 44% of people in India. The debate to make Hindi an official language has sparked for decades but to no avail. The Indian constitution does not give rights to any language to be declared as the National language of India. However, Hindi and ...
IndicLID, is a language identifier for all 22 Indian languages listed in the Indian constitution in both native-script and romanized text. IndicLID is the first LID for romanized text in Indian languages. It is a two stage classifier that is ensemble of a fast linear classifier and a slower...
In the 19th century two literary languages arose from thatcolloquialtongue: among Hindus, the modern form of Hindi, which derives its vocabulary and script (Devanagari) mainly fromSanskrit; and among Muslims, Urdu, which, though grammatically identical with Hindi, draws much of its vocabulary from...
My footprints in India (9) We move on to the interesting topic of Indian languages. There are 22 national languages recognised by the Constitution of India (“scheduled languages”), of which Hindi is the official language of the Republic. Different states use different languages as their own ...