How many different languages are there in India?

More than 19,500 languages or dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues, according to the latest analysis of a census released this week. There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore, it said.

How many alphabets are there in India?

There are 22 major languages in India, written in 13 different scripts, with over 720 dialects.

What is the most common language in India?

Hindi
English
India/Official languages

Which Indian language has more alphabets?

Most words in traditional Malayalam has its roots in either Tamil or Sanskrit. Due to its lineage to both Sanskrit and Tamil, the w:Malayalam alphabetMalayalam alphabet has the largest number of letters among the Indian languages.

Which Indian language has most alphabets?

What are the different languages spoken in India?

The official languages of India are (alphabetically mentioned)- Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei (Manipuri), Nepali, Odia, Punjabi. Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

How many states in India have Hindi as an official language?

It is an official language in 9 states and 3 union territories in India. Furthermore, it is also an additional official language in 3 Indian states. Besides India, Hindi speaking people are also found in Bangladesh, Mauritius, Yemen, Uganda and South Africa. Bengali is the second most spoken language of India and is known as Bangla.

What is the total number of people in India speaking Hindi?

It is spoken by around 9.7 crore people in India that is around 8\% of the total population of India. It is an Indian-Aryan language that is mostly spoken in South Asia including various states of India.

What is the difference between Marathi and Bengali alphabet?

The Bengali script or alphabet is written from left to right in the form of horizontal lines and it does not have capital letters. It is based on Brahmi, an ancient script of India and is closely related to the Devanagari alphabet. The Marathi language belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.