India's
national Language
Hindi
Other
languages in India
Bengali
Marathi
Telugu
Tamil
Gujarati
Urdu
Kannada
Odia
Malayalam
Punjabi
Assamese
Maithili
note: English enjoys the status of subsidiary official
language but is the most important language for national,
political, and commercial communication;
There are 22 other officially recognized languages: Assamese,
Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Nepali, Odia,
Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu;
Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely
throughout northern India but is not an official language
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