India Language, Indian Hindi

Indian languages fall under two major and two minor families : the Indo-European languages—Indo-Aryan (70%)—and the Dravidian languages (22% ), Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman families and a few isolated languages.
The first official language of India is Hindi. English is the second.The constitution of the country reads: "The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script.". Interesting to note that the constitution or the law specifies a National language. States have their own official languages. For example the southern state of Kerala has Malayalam as the official language while Andhra Pradesh has Telugu.
Interesting Quick Fact: Did you know that Malayalam, the language spoken in the southern Indian state of Kerala is the longest PALINDROME word?
There are several hundred languages spoken in various parts of the country. According to the 1961 census, there are 1,652 spoken languages in India! But the most often spoken by most people. Here is a language map of India. Here is a list of all the Indian Languages - 1000s!

angauge
Origins
Speakers*
Which region is it common in
Assamese/Axomiya 
Indo-Aryan, Eastern 
13
Assam
Bengali 
Indo-Aryan, Eastern 
83
West Bengal, Assam,
Jharkhand, Tripura (list)
Bodo 
Tibeto-Burman 
1.2
Assam
Dogri 
Indo-Aryan, Northern 
0.1
Jammu and Kashmir
Gujarati 
Indo-Aryan, Western 
46
Gujarat, Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu (list)
Hindi 
Indo-Aryan, various 
422
the "Hindi belt", North India
Kannada 
Dravidian, Southern 
38
Karnataka, Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, Goa (list)
Kashmiri 
Dardic 
5.5
Jammu and Kashmir
Konkani 
Indo-Aryan, Southern 
2.5
Konkan (Goa, Karnataka,
 Maharashtra, Kerala)
Maithili 
Indo-Aryan, Eastern 
12
Bihar
Malayalam 
Dravidian, Southern 
33
Kerala, Lakshadweep,
Mahé, Puducherry
Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei) 
Tibeto-Burman 
1.5
Manipur
Marathi 
Indo-Aryan, Southern 
72
Maharashtra, Karnataka,
 Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat,
 Andhra Pradesh, Goa (list)
Nepali 
Indo-Aryan, Northern 
2.5
Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam
Oriya 
Indo-Aryan, Eastern 
33
Orissa
Punjabi 
Indo-Aryan 
29
Punjab, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana
Sanskrit 
Indo-Aryan 
0.05
Mattur
Santali 
Austro-Asiatic, Munda 
6.5
Santal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau
 (comprising the states of Bihar,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)
Sindhi 
Indo-Aryan, Northwestern 
2.5
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan,
 Madhya Pradesh (list)
Tamil 
Dravidian, Southern 
61
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry,
Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra (list)
Telugu 
Dravidian, South-Central 
74
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
 Maharashtra, Orissa (list)
Urdu 
Indo-Aryan, Central 
52
Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh,
 Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand (list)

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