The Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken

by 73% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 24% of Indians.

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Other languages
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spoken in India belong to the Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman, and a few minor language families and isolates. The Republic of India does not have a National language.
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However, the official languages of the Union Government The constitution of India states that "The official
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of Republic of India isHindi in the Devanagari script and English. language of the Union shall be Hindi inDevanagari script."
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a position supported by a High Court ruling.

However,

languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian constitution are sometimes referred to, without legal standing, [8][9] as the national languages of India. In addition, some individual stateslegislate their own official languages, depending on their linguistic demographics. Individual mother tongues in India number several hundreds;
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the 1961 census recognized 1,652

(SIL

Ethnologue lists 415). According to Census of India of 2001, 30 languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, 122 by more than 10,000. More than three millennia of language contact has led to significant mutual influence among the four language families in India and South Asia. Two contact languages have played an important role in the history of India: Persian and English.
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