There are many languages in India.
Hindi, one of India’s official languages, is the most spoken language in the country, with 52.83 crore speakers.
In other words, 43.63% of the total population speaks Hindi.
It is followed by Bengali and Marathi in second and third positions respectively.
Even many words from Dravidian languages are derived from Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is surely the mother of many languages, especially languages spoken in Northern India.
Malayalam is belongs to Dravidian language group and considered as the smallest and the youngest language of the Dravidian language group.
There are 22 languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.
Government of India declared this language as the ‘Classical language of India’ .
| State/Union Territory | Language Spoken | Other Languages Spoken |
|
Jammu and Kashmir
|
Kashmiri | Dogri and Hindi |
| Himachal Pradesh | Hindi | Punjabi and Nepali |
|
Punjab
|
Punjabi | Hindi |
| Uttrakhand | Hindi | Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali |
| Haryana | Hindi | Punjabi and Urdu |
| Delhi | Hindi | Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali |
| Uttar Pradesh | Hindi | Urdu |
|
Rajasthan
|
Hindi | Punjabi and Urdu |
| Madhya Pradesh | Hindi | Marathi and Urdu |
| Chhattisgarh | Hindi | Bengali and Oriya |
| Bihar | Hindi | Maithili and Urdu |
| Jharkhand | Hindi | Santali, Bengali and Urdu |
| West Bengal | Bengali | Hindi, Santali, Urdu, Nepali |
| Sikkim | Nepali | Hindi, Bengali |
|
Assam
|
Assamese | Bengali, Hindi, Bodo and Nepali |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Bengali | Nepali, Hindi and Assamese |
| Nagaland | Bengali | Hindi and Nepali |
| Mizoram | Bengali | Hindi and Nepali |
| Tripura | Bengali | Hindi |
| Meghalaya | Bengali | Hindi and Nepali |
| Manipur | Manipuri | Nepali, Hindi and Bengali |
| Odisha | Oriya | Hindi, Telegu and Santali |
| Maharashtra | Marathi | Hindi, Urdu and Gujarati |
| Gujarat | Gujarati | Hindi, Sindhi, Marathi and Urdu |
| Daman and Diu | Gujarati | Hindi and Marathi |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | Gujarati | Hindi, Konkani and Marathi |
| Goa | Konkani | Marathi, Hindi and Kannada |
| Karnataka | Kannada | Urdu, Telugu, Marathi and Tamil |
| Andhra Pradesh | Telugu | Urdu, Hindi and Tamil |
| Kerala | Malayalam | None |
| Lakshadweep Islands | Malayalam | None |
| Tamil Nadu | Tamil | Telugu, Kannada and Urdu |
| Puducherry | Tamil | Telugu, Kannada and Urdu |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Bengali | Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam |
