India
: Global example
Hindi
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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