Languages in India

India has number its own language and that is why English is still ruling India after 40 years after independence also.
There are a great no. of languages in India, but the Number of languages those are officially recognised is 18. These languages can be divided into mainly 6 groups. Those are as follows:

Negroid Dravidian Sine Tibetan
Austric Indo Aryan Other Speaches

From the above six groups the IndoAryan and Dravidian groups dominate the other languages.
Hindi is the national language of India.Although this is so many of the educated people have English as first language and a great number of Indians who speak more than one language it will be their secind language. thus if you don't know even a little of the local language, you can communicate any local person in English.

Hindi Although only about 20% of Indians speaks Hindi as their mother toung like people in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and uttar Pradesh, Hindu is the most important language in India. This is the official language of the Indian Goernment as well as all the states. Primarily Hindi was spoken in Delhi and some part of the UPdistrict.

Assamese It is a member of Indo-Aryan Language. This one is the state language of Assam. More than 58% of the poopulation of the state Assam speaks this language.Developed as a separate language in 13th century.

Bengali It is a member of Indo-Aryanlanguage. It is the state language of Bangladesh. About 200 millions of people speaks Bengali. It has its origine in 1000AD.

Gujarathi Being a member of an Indo-Aryan family, Gujarathi is the state language of the state Gujarat, has its origin as an independent language from AD1200. Because of the rapid development it is one of the most developed languages in India.

Kannada Being the state language of the state Karnataka, Kannada belongs to the Dravidian family. As it has its origine in 9th century Kannada has a rich literary tradition. About 65% of the state's population speakes Kannada.

Kashmiri Kashmiri language is a member of an Indo-Aryan family. Although it is not the state language of the state Jammu and Kashmir, 55% of the population speaks Kashmiri and has its origin in 1200AD.

Malayalam It is one of the Dravidian languages. Malayam struck out in 10th century AD. It the state language of Kerala.

Marathi It is a state language of the state Maharashtra. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan family. Its literary career began in 13th century. It has today a fully developed literature of the modern type.

Oriya It is one of the branches of the Indo-Aryan family. Belongs to tteh state Orrisa as its state language and spoken by nearly about 87% of the total population of the state.Found in 10th century but began its literary in 14th century.

Punjabi Being the member of the Indo-Aryan family it is the state language of Punjab. It is based on the script 'Gurumukhi' which is written in a 16th century created by the Sikh Guru Angad.Since 19th century Punjabi shows a vigourous developmentin all branches of literature.

Sanskrit Being one of the oldest languages in world, Sanskrit is a classical language of India.It start with Rig Veda, which has its origin 2000BC. Early Sunskrit is known as Vedic Sunskrit and covers the period between 2000 to 500BC and Classical Sunskrit covers the period between 500 to 1000 BC.

Sindhi It is one of the branches of the Indo-Aryan family. About 10.5 millions of people from India speakes Sindhi. Sindhi speakers in India mainly uses Devanagari script. sindhi has developed noteworthy literature also.

Tamil An ancient Dravidian language has its origin at least 2000 years old. It is the state language of Tamil Nadu. the language is spoken by 73 millions of people and judging by its modern publications.

Tellugu Numarically the biggest language in the Dravidian family. Next to Hindi, it is the biggest linguistic unit in India, having its origin in 7th centuryAD, but it was broke out into a literary language in 11th century.

Urdu Being with Hindi Urdu is evolved in early Delhi, Urdu is the state language of jammu and Kashmir. This language is spoken by more than 28 million people in India. The name Urdu is derived from 'Zaben-e-Urdu-Muala' which means the language of the exalted camp or court. Urdu and Hindi have same source and was a spoken language which prevailed around Delhi since the 13th century

Nepali Being language of Nepal it is related to the languages of North India.It is spoken in some parts of West Bengal, Up, Bihar and Assam.

Kokani This is the official language of Goa spoken by thousands of Kokanies in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala.

Manipuri This is the local language of the people of the valley and the hill of Manipur. About 70% of the Manipur's population speaks the language.