Languages+spoken+in+India-Aiden

media type="custom" key="11232252" width="90" height="90" media type="custom" key="11233218" T here are 17 Major Languages and 844 Dialects. Hindi is the most popular language in India with 41% of the population speaking it, with Bengali following it with 8.1%. For more information look at the chart below. //**Table: Ordered by number of native speakers**//||~ Rank (total population 1,028.61 million) || Here is a youtube video that should express it easier. ê
 * ~ Language |||| [|2001 census][|[2]]
 * ||  || Speakers ||
 * 1 || [|Hindi][|[5]] || 422,048,642 ||
 * 2 || [|Bengali] || 83,369,769 ||
 * 3 || [|Telugu] || 74,002,856 ||
 * 4 || [|Marathi] || 71,936,894 ||
 * 5 || [|Tamil] || 60,793,814 ||
 * 6 || [|Urdu] || 51,536,111 ||
 * 7 || [|Gujarati] || 46,091,617 ||
 * 8 || [|Kannada] || 37,924,011 ||
 * 9 || [|Malayalam] || 33,066,392 ||
 * 10 || [|Oriya] || 33,017,446 ||
 * 11 || [|Punjabi] || 29,102,477 ||
 * 12 || [|Assamese] || 13,168,484 ||
 * 13 || [|Maithili] || 12,179,122 ||
 * 14 || [|Bhili/Bhilodi] || 9,582,957 ||
 * 15 || [|Santali] || 6,469,600 ||
 * 16 || [|Kashmiri] || 5,527,698 ||
 * 17 || [|Nepali] || 2,871,749 ||
 * 18 || [|Gondi] || 2,713,790 ||
 * 19 || [|Sindhi] || 2,535,485 ||
 * 20 || [|Konkani] || 2,489,015 ||
 * 21 || [|Dogri] || 2,282,589 ||
 * 22 || [|Khandeshi] || 2,075,258 ||
 * 23 || [|Kurukh] || 1,751,489 ||
 * 24 || [|Tulu] || 1,722,768 ||
 * 25 || [|Meitei] / [|Manipuri] || 1,466,705* ||
 * 26 || [|Bodo] || 1,350,478 ||
 * 27 || [|Khasi] || 1,128,575 ||
 * 28 || [|Mundari] || 1,061,352 ||
 * 29 || [|Ho] || 1,042,724 ||

media type="youtube" key="LgtNrAXeLHA?version=3" height="360" width="640" The official languages of the Republic of India are Standard Hindi and English. According to the article 3431), "The Official Language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script." The individual states can legislate their own official languages, depending on their linguistic demographics. This is the a chart of Hindi letters and what they look like. [|46621654-1f39-11de-bc19-000255111976.wm.png] media type="custom" key="11235310"