🇮🇳 What Language Do They Speak in India?
The short answer
India has no single national language. Hindi and English are the official languages of the Union government, and the constitution recognises 22 scheduled languages — including Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil and Urdu. Hindi is the most widely spoken, understood by well over half a billion people.
Worth knowing
- ●India counts over 120 major languages and hundreds more mother tongues
- ●Hindi and Urdu are largely the same spoken language written in two different scripts
- ●English serves as the link language of business, higher courts and much of the internet in India
- ●Southern states largely speak Dravidian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) unrelated to Hindi
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