How Many Languages in India

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.

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

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.

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.

Gulshan Ji English is adopted as officlial language in Nagaland.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

Sir, I have a doubt.
The Hindi language I know is only through Bollywood films and TV channels. They belong to which group?

[quote]Sir, I have a doubt.
The Hindi language I know is only through Bollywood films and TV channels. They belong to which group?[/quote]

Hindi is our national language also.

Hi Vinod, I think totally up to 10000 languages speaks by people in India.

There are different type of languages are speaking in different part of the country lets us find in that link.

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

[quote]Sir, I have a doubt.
The Hindi language I know is only through Bollywood films and TV channels. They belong to which group?

Hindi is our national language also.[/quote]

The Hindi in newspapers, films and TV is standard Hindi. But this is actually nobody's mother tongue. The people speak in their own home the regional variants like Bhojpuri, Avadhi, Brijbhasha etc. Here at Agra, I find that the local residents especially from villages speak in Brij Bhasha among themselves. similarly, in Bihar, I found people speaking in Bhojpuri among themselves but would speak in standard Hindi with others. Thus, it appears that standard Hindi, which may also be called text book Hindi, is a sort of link language like English.

wow..! I got so many information on this thread. Thanks to gulshan ji for clearing my doubt.
But still i didnt get exact answer for my question.. :(

I don't know this that Hindi is not mother tongue of any.Thanks for nice information.

wow..! I got so many information on this thread. Thanks to gulshan ji for clearing my doubt.
But still i didnt get exact answer for my question.. :(

There are twenty to languages listed in constitution. The dialects change every few kilometers and hence these are in thousands.

See the link for more information

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