LANGUAGES INDIA THE LAND OF BEAUTIFUL “¦

India is a vast country, with different cultural and geographical diversities. There are number of different languages spoken across the country. Some of these languages are accepted nationally, while other are accepted as dialects of particular regions. These languages originated from the past, most of them belong to several major linguistic families, like Indo-Aryan (spoken by 70% Indians), Dravidian languages (spoken by 20% Indians),Austro-Asiatic languages and Tibet- Burman linguistic languages.

The Indian constitution (Article 343) declares, Hindi is the official language of the union. Hindi is also the mother tongue of about 20% of the Indian population, living in the area known as the Hindi-belt or the cow-belt of northern India. This includes the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttaranchal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Haryana and Himachal Pradesh also have Hindi as their official language.

English language is the second commonly used language in India. It enjoys a special status and remains second official language of India. It is also the authoritative legislative and judicial language. Apart from English and Hindi, there are the various regional spoken or written languages. In fact, each state of India has its Dialects; however, the 28th schedule of the constitution of India officially accepts 22 regional languages.

Language of India:- 1- Assamese:-A language of Assam thats spoken by nearly 60% of the states population. 2- Bodo:-It is the language spoken by the Bodo people of Assam, it comes under the Assam ““Burmese group of language. 3- Dogri:-Mainly spoken by the people of Jammu region. 4- Maithili:- Mostly spoken in the parts of Bihar and the eastern Terai region of Nepal. 5- Manipuri/Meiti:- Official language of state of Manipur 6- Oriya:- the official language of Nepal ,it is also spoken in some north eastern part of India 7- Santhali:- Santhal tribal of the chota Nagpur Plateau (Comprising the state of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,Orissa)