Famous Spoken Languages of India
| Assamese | It is an Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of Assam. |
| Bengali | It is one of the leading Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of West Bengal. |
| Gujarati | It is an Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of Gujarat. |
| Hindi | The largest spoken Indo-Aryan language. It is the official language of the Government of India. Various dialects of Hindi are Khariboli, Brajbhasha, Bundeli, Awadhi, Marwari, Maithili and Bhojpuri. In 6 states and UTs, Hindi is the official language. |
| Kannada | It belongs to the Dravidian family and is the official language of Karnataka. |
| Kashmiri | It is an Indo-Aryan language. It is often mistaken as the official language of Jammu and Kashmir. |
| Konkani | It is the official language of Goa and is spoken by thousands of Konkanis in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala. It was added in 1992 by 71st Amendment. It is an Indo-Aryan language. |
| Malayalam | Belong to the Dravidian family and is the official language of Kerala. |
| Manipuri | It is the official language of Manipur. It was added in 1992 by 71st Amendment. It is a sino-Tibetan language. |
| Marathi | It is an Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of Maharashtra. |
| Nepali | It is spoken in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, etc. It was added in 1992 by 71st Amendment. It is an Indo-Aryan language. |
| Odia | It is an Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of Odisha. |
| Punjabi | It is an Indo-Aryan language and is the official language of Punjab. |
| Sanskrit | It is one of the earliest languages of the world. Early Sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit and covers the period between 2000 and 500 BC. |
| Sindhi | It is an Indo-Aryan language. It was added in 1967 by 21st Amendment. |
| Tamil | It is the oldest of the Dravidian languages and is the official language of Tamil Nadu. |
| Telugu | It is numerically the biggest of the Dravidian languages and is the official language of Andhra Pradesh. |
| Urdu | It is the official language of Jammu and Kashmir. It is an Indo-Aryan language. Modern Urdu developed due to the efforts of Sir Sayyed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898). |
| Dogri | It is generally spoken in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu. It is a combination of ancient Sanskrit and Pahari Dogri languages. It has been added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003. |
| Maithili | It is chiefly spoken in the Maithilianchal region of Bihar. It is the second state language of Bihar. It has been added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003. |
| Santhali | It is chiefly spoken in the area of Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand and Bihar. It has been added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003. |
| Bodo | It is chiefly spoken in Assam and its adjoining North-East States. It has been added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 2003. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. |
