Sanskrit

Hindi

English

Gujarati - Language of Gujarat and Union Territories of Dadar and Nagar Haveli

Punjabi - The official language of Punjab

Bengali- The state language of West Bengal

Assamese - Official language of Assam

Dogri, Urdu - The language of Jammu and Kashmir

Oriya - The state language of state of Odisha

Marathi - Language of Maharashtra

Kannada - The official language of Karnataka

Tamil - The state language of Tamil Nadu

Telugu - It is the official language of Andhra Pradesh.

Malayalam - It is the official language of Kerala

Sindhi

Konkani - The state language of Goa

Manipuri - The official language of Manipur

Khasi - The official language of Meghalaya

Mizo - The official language of Mizoram

English - The official language of Nagaland

Assamese

Bengali

Bodo

Dogri

Gujarati

Hindi

Kannada

Kashmiri

Konkani

Maithili

Malayalam

Manipuri

Marathi

Nepali

Odia

Punjabi

Sanskrit

Santali

Sindhi

Tamil

Telugu

Urdu

List by number of native speakers in India

Rank Language 2011 Census Speakers Percentage 1 Hindi 52,83,47,193 43.63% 2 Bengali 9,72,37,669 8.03% 3 Telugu 8,11,27,740 6.70% 4 Marathi 8,30,26,680 6.86% 5 Tamil 6,90,26,881 5.70% 6 Urdu 5,07,72,631 4.19% 7 Gujarati 5,54,92,554 4.58% 8 Kannada 4,37,06,512 3.61% 9 Malayalam 3,48,38,819 2.88% 10 Oriya 3,75,21,324 3.10% 11 Punjabi 3,31,24,726 2.74% 12 Assamese 1,53,11,351 1.26% 13 Maithili 1,35,83,464 1.12% 14 Bhili/Bhilodi 1,04,13,637 8.67% 15 Santali 73,68,192 13.89% 16 Kashmiri 67,97,587 0.56% 17 Nepali 29,26,168 0.24% 18 Gondi 29,84,453 9.97% 19 Sindhi 27,72,264 0.23% 20 Konkani 22,56,502 0.19% 21 Dogri 25,96,767 0.21% 22 Khandeshi 18,60,236 -10.36% 23 Kurukh 19,88,350 13.52% 24 Tulu 18,46,427 7.18% 25 Meitei/Manipuri 17,61,079 0.15% 26 Bodo 14,82,929 0.12% 27 Khasi 14,31,344 26.83% 28 Mundari 11,28,228 6.30% 29 Ho 14,21,418 36.32% 30 Garo 11,45,323 28.76% 31 Tripuri 10,11,294 18.42%

Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011

S. No. Language Persons who Returned the Language as their Mother Tongue Percentage to Total Population 1 Hindi 52,83,47,193 43.63 2 Bengali 9,72,37,669 8.03 4 Marathi 8,30,26,680 6.86 3 Telugu 8,11,27,740 6.70 5 Tamil 6,90,26,881 5.70 7 Gujarati 5,54,92,554 4.58 6 Urdu 5,07,72,631 4.19 8 Kannada 4,37,06,512 3.61 10 Oriya 3,75,21,324 3.1 9 Malayalam 3,48,38,819 2.88 11 Punjabi 3,31,24,726 2.74 12 Assamese 1,53,11,351 1.26 13 Maithili 1,35,83,464 1.12 14 Santali 73,68,192 0.61 15 Kashmiri 67,97,587 0.56 16 Nepali 29,26,168 0.24 17 Sindhi 27,72,264 0.23 18 Konkani 22,56,502 0.19 19 Dogri 25,96,767 0.21 20 Manipuri 17,61,079 0.15 21 Bodo 14,82,929 0.12 22 Sanskrit 24,821 N

States official languages

S. No. States Official Languages Additional Official Languages 1 Andhra Pradesh Telugu Urdu 2 Arunachal Pradesh English 3 Assam Assamese 4 Bihar Hindi Urdu 5 Chhattisgarh Hindi 6 Goa Konkani Marathi 7 Gujarat Gujarati 8 Haryana Hindi 9 Himachal Pradesh Hindi English 10 Jharkhand Hindi Urdu 11 Karnataka Kannada 12 Kerala Malayalam 13 Madhya Pradesh Hindi 14 Maharashtra Marathi 15 Manipur Manipuri English 16 Meghalaya English Khasi 17 Mizoram Mizo, English, Hindi 18 Nagaland English 19 Odisha Odia 20 Punjab Punjabi (in Gurumukhi Script) 21 Rajasthan Hindi English 22 Sikkim English 23 Tamil Nadu Tamil English 24 Telangana Telugu and Urdu 25 Tripura Bengali, Kokborok and English 26 Uttar Pradesh Hindi Urdu 27 Uttarakhand Hindi 28 West Bengal Bengali Hindi, Urdu, Santhali, Oriya and Punjabi, Nepali S. No. Union Territory Official Languages Other Officially Recognised Languages 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands English, Hindi 2 Chandigarh English Punjabi and Hindi 3 Dadra and Nagar Haveli Hindi and Gujarati Marathi 4 Daman and Diu Konkani and Gujarati 5 Delhi Hindi Punjabi, Urdu 6 Lakshadweep English Hindi 7 Puducherry Tamil, English Malayalam and Telugu 8 Jammu and Kashmir Urdu 9 Ladakh Ladakhi

Other local languages and dialects

S. No. State Speakers 1 Haryanvi 322,230,097 2 Bhojpuri 50,579,447 3 Rajasthani 25,806,344 4 Chhattisgarhi 16,245,190 5 Magadh/Magahi 12,706,825 6 Khorth/Khotta 8,038,735 7 Marwari 7,831,749 8 Bundeli/Bundelkhan 5,626,356 9 Malvi 5,212,617 10 Sadan/Sadri 4,345,677 11 Mewari 4,212,262 12 Awadhi 3,850,906 13 Laman/Lambadi 3,276,548 14 Pahari 3,253,889 15 Harauti 2,944,356 16 Bagheli/Baghel Khan 2,679,129 17 Garhwali 2,482,089 18 Nimadi 2,309,265 19 Nimadi 2,309,265 20 Surjapuri 2,256,228 21 Kumauni 2,081,057 22 Surgujia 1,738,256 23 Surgujia 1,738,256 24 Banjari 1,581,271 25 Brajbhasha 1,556,314 26 Dhundhari 1,476,446 27 Gojri/Gujjari/Gujar 1,227,901 28 Kangri 1,117,342

Last Updated on: November 19, 2019

India, a potpourri of different cultures, religions and beliefs, is home to not just one or two languages but to an uncountable number of different lingual families. 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 Language Map.According to Ethnologue, India is considered to be home to 461 languages, out of which 14 have been reported to be extinct.But still there is not a single Indian language that is spoken across its length and breadth. Hindi is spoken by a majority of North Indians, but it is not a popular means of communication in the southern part of India. Similarly, South Indian languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam are not understood by the people of North India.For the convenience of people, the Constitution of India has recognised 22 languages in the eighth schedule. These are known as Scheduled Languages and constitute the major languages of the country. India Language Map provides detailed information about these languages listed in Schedule VIII of the Constitution and spoken in different parts of the country.The list of some of the Indian languages includes:As per Articles 344(1) and 351 of the Indian Constitution, the eighth schedule includes the recognition of the following 22 languages:Urdu and Telugu are also the official languages of the newly formed state of Telangana.Besides these, there are other languages, which are spoken by large masses but have still not acquired the status of Scheduled Languages of India. These languages spoken by regional people are known as regional languages of India. These include Rajasthani, Haryanvi, Bhili, Gondi and Tulu among others.Some Indian languages are not widely spoken and have been given the status of minority languages. Mahl and Portuguese languages come under this category.The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakersThe 2011 census identified the following native languages having more than one million speakers. All of them are dialects/variants grouped under Hindi