Languages spoken in India-Aiden

There 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

Language	2001 census[2] (total population 1,028.61 million)
		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

Here is a youtube video that should express it easier.ê


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.

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