How Many Languages in India

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vinodh

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13 years ago

Can anyone know How many Languages speaking in india?? :unsure:

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Sandhya Rani

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13 years ago

#178545

The Indian census of 1961 recognised 1,652 different languages in India (including languages not native to the subcontinent).
I don't know how many of them are existing today :laugh:
You can get a vague idea by referring these sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111011091335AA9tjvN

Tribes have a different spoken language and at most times, don't have even a script.

In Thiruvananthapuram city itself, 3 languages are spoken. Malayalam, Tamil and Tulu. Tulu Brahmins don't have a written script.

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RAM PROSAD ACHARYYA

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13 years ago

#178583

This was unknown to me .Thanks for important information. I thought it 4000.

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Sasikanth

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13 years ago

#178586

Oh this is a great information as we living in India don't know how many languages is speaking. But we need clear information about this.

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Gulshan Kumar Ajmani

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13 years ago

#178591

We have seventeen languages including Hindi and English. These are on currency notes. But each language has different dialects. There are many variants of Hindi- Maithili, Bhojpuri, Khadi Boli etc. Punjabi is also spoken in different ways. If you consider all the dialects, there are more than five hundred dialects. Nagaland has many languages but a common language called Nagamese has been evolved. In view of no acceptable local language for state purposes, they have adopted english as official language of the state.

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Sasikanth

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#178596

Gulshan Ji English is adopted as officlial language in Nagaland.

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Sandhya Rani

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13 years ago

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We have seventeen languages including Hindi and English. These are on currency notes. But each language has different dialects. There are many variants of Hindi- Maithili, Bhojpuri, Khadi Boli etc. Punjabi is also spoken in different ways. If you consider all the dialects, there are more than five hundred dialects. Nagaland has many languages but a common language called Nagamese has been evolved. In view of no acceptable local language for state purposes, they have adopted english as official language of the state.

Can you tell something more about Maithili and Khadi Boli. Where are they spoken, its difference from Hindi language, whether they have written script?

Meera sandhu

Gulshan Kumar Ajmani

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#178612

We have seventeen languages including Hindi and English. These are on currency notes. But each language has different dialects. There are many variants of Hindi- Maithili, Bhojpuri, Khadi Boli etc. Punjabi is also spoken in different ways. If you consider all the dialects, there are more than five hundred dialects. Nagaland has many languages but a common language called Nagamese has been evolved. In view of no acceptable local language for state purposes, they have adopted english as official language of the state.

Can you tell something more about Maithili and Khadi Boli. Where are they spoken, its difference from Hindi language, whether they have written script?

Maithili and Bhojpuri are spoken in Bihar. Khadi Boli is spoken in parts of U.P. and this is very much like Hindi in newspapers. Brijbhasha is spoken in Agra- Mathura area. Avadhi is spoken in Ayodhya and surrounding area. The famous Hindi books were in these dialects- Ram charit Manas (Tulisdas- Avadhi), Soor Sagar (Sur Das- Brijbhasha). The verse by famous devotional poet Kabirdas is in Khadi Boli. The scrips of all these is Devnagri. These are all considered as part of Hindi literature.

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Sandhya Rani

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13 years ago

#178617

Thank you sir. I thought all these books were really written in Hindi with some local spoken words included (also some Sanskrit words). I want to know some more derivative languages of Hindi.

Meera sandhu

Gulshan Kumar Ajmani

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13 years ago

#178622

Thank you sir. I thought all these books were really written in Hindi with some local spoken words included (also some Sanskrit words). I want to know some more derivative languages of Hindi.

As a matter of fact, the Hindi in textbooks and newspapers is nobody's mother tongue. This is only a consensus language of urban educated. Most Hindi speaking people speak only the variants like Bhojpur, Brijbhasha etc among own community. Even Urdu is a variant of Hindi but considered a different language owing to Persian script.

Please find following links for more information on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dialects_of_Hindi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Hindi

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RAM PROSAD ACHARYYA

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#178625

Nice topics and have learnt many things about our language.
Gulshanji can you explain some about aulchiki language ?

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