Part XVII of the Indian constitution deals with the official languages of India from articles 343 to 351. Originally, only 14 languages were mentioned and later, after several amendments, the other languages were added. Check out the list of all the 22 languages of India as recognized by the...
Indian 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
The estimated number of spoken languages in India today is 456. There are 23 officially recognized in the Indian Constitution. India's census names 122 languages as spoken by at least 10,000 people. Thirty of those have at least 1 million native speakers. ...
English is a language that has become a standard not because it has been approved by any "standards" organization but because it is widely used by many information and technology industries and recognized as being standard. The call centre phenomenon has stimulated a huge expansion of Internet-...
It has also been used by Jaina and Buddhist scholars, the latter primarily Mahāyāna Buddhists. Further, Sanskrit is recognized in the constitution of India as both a classical language and an official language and continues to be used in scholarly, literary, and technical media, as well as ...
English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 39.8% of the population as of 2016; mainly spoken in areas along Ireland's western coast known as gaeltachtai, which are officially recognized regions where Irish is the predominant langu...
Interestingly, while Punjabi is more widely spoken than any other language in Pakistan, is it not officially recognized as one of the country’s languages. FilipinoAnother interesting SE Asian language, Filipino is the standardized version of Tagalog, though many people confuse the two as being ...
Tamil (ISO 6393: tam) is the primary language of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, a state, and a territory of India, as it is a scheduled language under the Indian constitution. It is also recognized as one of Sri Lanka’s and Singapore’s official languages. A significant people speaks Tamil...
English (official, the language generally used), Irish (Gaelic or Gaeilge) (official, spoken by approximately 39.8% of the population as of 2016; mainly spoken in areas along Ireland's western coast known as gaeltachtai, which are officially recognized regions where Irish is the predominant langu...
For centuries South Africa’s official languages were European – Dutch, English and Afrikaans. African languages, spoken by at least 80% of the people, were ignored. In 1996 a new constitution gave official protection to all of the country’s major languages. ...