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The 22 scheduled languages of India: their scripts, history, literature and where they are spoken.

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Urdu

Urdu (/ˈʊərduː/;[10] اُردُو‎ ALA-LC: Urdū [ˈʊrd̪uː] ( listen), or Modern Standard Urdu) is a Persianized, Arabized, and also a standardisedregister language of the Hindustani…

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Telugu

Telugu (English: /ˈtɛlᵿɡuː/;[4] telugu [t̪el̪uɡu]) is a Dravidian language native to India. It stands alongside Hindi, English, and Bengali as one of the few languages with…

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Tamil

Tamil (English: /ˈtæmɪl/; தமிழ் [t̪ɐmɨɻ], pronunciation (help·info)) is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and also by the Tamil…

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Sindhi

Sindhi /ˈsɪndi/[6] (سنڌي, सिन्धी, , ਸਿੰਧੀ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the historical Sindh region, spoken by the Sindi people. It is the official language of the Pakistani…

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Santali

Santhali (Ol Chiki: ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ) is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari. It is spoken by around 6.2 million people in India…

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (IAST: Saṃskṛtam; IPA: [sə̃skr̩t̪əm][a]) is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism ; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism; and a…

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Punjabi

Punjabi (/pʌnˈdʒɑːbi/;[3] Shahmukhi: پنجابی paṉjābī; Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ pañjābī)[4] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over 100 million native speakers worldwide, making it the…

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Odia

Odia (/əˈdiːə/) or Oriya (/ɒˈriːə/; both renderings of Odia: ଓଡ଼ିଆ oḍiā (help·info)) is a language spoken by 4.2% of India’s population.[5] It is an Indo-Aryan language that is…

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Nepali

Nepali, also called Gurkha, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, or Khaskura, is an Indo-Aryan language derived from Sanskrit. It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal. It…

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Marathi

Marathi (English: /məˈrɑːti/;[9] मराठी [məˈɾaʈʰi] ( listen)) is an Indian language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra. It is the official language and…

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Manipuri Language

Meitei /ˈməɪtəɪ/[5] (also Manipuri[6][7] /mənᵻˈpʊri/, Meithei, Meetei, Meiteilon)Manipuri language is the predominant language and lingua franca in the southeastern Himalayan…

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Maithili

Maithili (/ˈmaɪtᵻli/;[3] Maithilī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Mithila region which is today mainly situated in northern and eastern Bihar of India and a few districts…