Indian Language
India is a country of diversities . Therefore the main feature of Indian language is it's diversity . The languages of India belong to several linguistic families, the major ones being the Indo - Aryan languages, spoken by 78.05 % of Indians and Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64 % of Indians . The languages spoken by the remaining 2.31 % of the population belong to Austro - Asiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman and a few minor language families and isolate.
"The official language of the union shall be Hindi in Devanagri Script " ( Art. 343)
Neither the constitution, nor the law specifies a national language.The eighth schedule of Indian consitution rcognised 22 official languages of India. According to the Census of India 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages .Therefore, there is a famous proverb in Hindi that in India...
"Kos-kos par badle Pani , Char kos par badle Vani"
(Water changes every mile and language changes every four miles)
The 2001 census recorded 30 languages which were spoken by more than a million native speakers and 122 which were spoken by more than the 10,000 people .
The top five most spoken languages in India. Language Speakers. Hindi 528 Million Bengali 97 Million Marathi 83 Million Telgu 81 Million Tamil 69 Million
However , there are many languages in India but still unity in diversity exists .That's what makes our India so special .
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