Languages in India

India is a vast country with 1,131,598,939 people on her ground.The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European, whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 70% of the population of India and that includes the Dardic languages; secondly, the Dravidian family (spoken by about 22%). Other languages spoken in India come mainly from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families; in addition there are a few language isolates.

The Constitution of India recognises 22 languages, spoken in different parts the country, namely:

1. Assamese
2. Bengali
3. Bodo
4. Dogri
5. Gujarati
6. Hindi
7. Kannada
8. Kashmiri
9. Konkani
10. Maithili
11. Malayalam
12. Manipuri
13. Marathi
14. Nepali
15. Oriya
16. Punjabi
17. Sanskrit
18. Santhali
19. Sindhi
20. Tamil
21. Telugu
22. Urdu

Source - Wikipedia

A small info about our greatness

§ 5,000 year old ancient civilization

§ 325 languages spoken – 1,652 dialects

§ 18 official languages

§ 29 states, 5 union territories

§ 3.28 million sq. kilometers - Area

§ 7,516 kilometers - Coastline

§ 1.3 Billion population.

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§ 5600 dailies, 15000 weeklies and 20000 periodicals in 21 languages with a combined circulation of 142 million.

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§ GDP $576 Billion. (GDP rate 8%)

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§ Parliamentary form of Government

§ Worlds largest democracy.

§ Worlds 4th largest economy.

§ World-class recognition in IT, bio-technology and space.

§ Largest English speaking nation in the world.

§ 3rd largest standing army force, over 1.5Million strong.

§ 2nd largest pool of scientists and engineers in the World.