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What language family is Indian?
Indo-Iranian languages
Indo-European languagesIndo-Aryan languages
Hindi/Language family
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 in particular).
How many languages are there in India in total?
| Languages of India | |
|---|---|
| Official | Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri English Gujarati Hindi Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Marathi Meitei Nepali Odia Punjabi Sanskrit Santali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu (total: 23, including 22 8th Schedule languages and additional official language, English) |
What is the second largest language family?
the Sino-Tibetan family
Another important language family is the Sino-Tibetan family. It is the world’s second largest language family, with more than one billion speakers of its hundreds of different languages.
What are the most common languages spoken in India?
Hindi – 52.83 crore speakers. Hindi is the most spoken language in India.
What is the most popular language in India?
Hindi, English, and Bengali are among the most popular languages spoken in India. The Republic of India is the world’s seventh largest country by area as well as the world’s second most populous country. The country has a population of more than 1.2 billion people.
How many languages are prevailing in India?
Hindi. Hindi is the most spoken as well as one of the official languages in India.
What is the best language in India?
Hindi is the official language of India, which is spoken by about 45 per cent of the population. Among the various dialects of Hindi, the dialect chosen as official Hindi is the standard Khariboli, written in Devanagiri script. Sanskrit is a classical language of India used in Hindu Temples for Prayers.