Principal Languages of INDIA

Bengali one of the leading Indo-Aryan languages, is the official language of West Bengal. It is spoken by 86 million people, the majority of whom are new in Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. Bengali emerged as a separate language around A.D. 1000. It is new one of the most advanced languages of India.

Victorial Memorial (kolkata)

Gujarati, a member of the Indo-Aryan family, is the official language of the state of Gujarat. Gujarati started at as an independent language around A.D. 1200. It has progressed at a rapid pace and is now one of the most developed Indian languages.

Gujarat

Hindi, numerically the biggest of the Indo-Aryan family is the official language of the Government of India.

Hindi Lord Ganesha

Punjabi belongs to the Indo-Aryan family and is the official language of the state of punjab.

Golden Temple, Punjab ( Amritsar )

Kannada the official language of the state of Karnataka, belongs to the Dravidian family. The Majority of its Speakers is found in Karnataka where they from more than 65% of the population. Kannada as an independent language, dates from the 9th century. It has rich literary traditions.

panchalingeshwara temple (Karnataka)

Kashmiri, a language of the Indo-Aryan group, is often mistaken as the state language of Jammu and Kashmir. Actually, Urdu is the state language of Jammu and Kashmir.

Solang Ropeway & Ski Centre ( Kashmir )

Malayalam, a branch of the Dravidian family, is the official language of the state of Kerala, Malayalam struck out on its own by the 10th century A.D. It is one of the most developed languages of India.

Cadanum Flower

Oriya, a branch of the Indo-Aryan family, is the of the state of Orissa, where Oriya-speaking population comprises some 82% of the population.

Old Man, Village ( Odisha )

Sanskrit the classical language of India, is also one of the oldest languages of the world --- perhaps the very oldest to be recorded. It Starts with Rig Veda, Which appers to have been composed around 2000 B.C. Early sanskrit is known as Vedic Sanskrit and and covers the period between 2000 and 500 B.C. classical Sanskrit covers the period between 500 B.C. and A.D. 1000.

Snaskrit hand writing

Sindhi is a branch of the Indo-Aryan Family. It is spoken by some 7 million people of world, 51/2 million live in Sind (Pakistan), and the rest mostly in India.

Lahore

Tamil the oldest of the Dravidian languages, is the state language of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Literature goes back to centuries before the Christian era.

Church ( Kanyakumari )

Telugu, numerically the biggest of the Dravidian languages, is the state language of Andhra Pradesh. Next to Hindi, it is the biggest linguistic unit in India. Telugu is found recorded from the 7th century A.D. but it was only in the 11th Century that is broke out into a literally language.