8th Schedule to the constitution of India and list of official languages

Then is a list of 22 official languages of India!  list of languages in the 8th schedule

Official Languages The Eighth Schedule to the constitution of India lists the official languages of India. Although there are hundreds of languages spoken across the country.

 The eighth schedule recognises a aggregate of 22 languages as the official languages. While 14 of these languages were included in the constitution at first, the rest of the languages were added to the constitution through posterior emendations.

list of languages in the 8th schedule

Official languages of India-

1. Assamese

• The language is substantially spoken in the north- eastern state of Assam and also serves as the region’s lingua franca.
• It’s spoken by further than 23 million people.

2. Bengali

• Also known as’ Bangla’, this official language is spoken by nearly 300 million people.
• also, it’s also the functionary and public language of Bangladesh.

3. Gujarati

• This language is the official language in Gujarat, as well in the Union homes of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
• This language is spoken by over55.5 million people.

4. Hindi

• This language is spoken across northern, central, eastern and western India.
• also, it’s one of the two official languages of the Government of India and is spoken by nearly 322 million speakers.

5. Kannada

• Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken substantially by Karnataka residers in India’s southern area.
• It’s spoken by roughly 43 million people as of 2011.

6. Kashmiri

• It came an official language of the UT of Jammu & Kashmir in 2020 and is substantially spoken by the people of the region.
• There are roughly 7 million speakers of the language.

7. Konkani

• It’s substantially spoken in the Konkan region, which includes Goa and littoral areas of some other countries.
• It’s spoken by nearly2.3 million people.
  list of languages in the 8th schedule

8. Malayalam

• Spoken by the Malayali people, this language is spoken in Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry and is spoken by 34 million people worldwide.

9. Manipuri

• Also known as Meitei, or Meetei, this language is spoken in the northeastern state of Manipur and has nearly1.8 million speakers worldwide and is presently classified as a” vulnerable language” by UNESCO.

10. Marathi

• Spoken in the state of Maharashtra, it has 83 million speakers, making it the third in terms of native speakers after Hindi and Bengali.

11. Nepali

• Native to Nepal, Nepali has been one of the 22 listed languages of India because of the presence of the Nepalese community in the North- east region.

12. Oriya

• It’s spoken in Odisha, in corridor of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh by about 35 million people worldwide.

13. Punjabi

• Spoken by people of Punjab in both India and Pakistan, Punjabi is the third most- spoken native language in the Indian key.
• It also has a significant number of speakers abroad due to the wide Punjabi diaspora.

14 Sanskrit

• This ancient language served as the sacred language of Hinduism and Hindu gospel.

15. Sindhi

• Sindhi is an Indo- Aryan language spoken by the Sindhi people in the ancient Sindh area on the western Indian key.
• It’s still spoken by1.68 million people as of the 2011 tale.

16. Tamil

• Tamil is a Classical Dravidian language spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia as their first language.
• Tamil has 75 million speakers and is among the longest- surviving classical languages in the world.

17. Telugu

• Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken substantially by Telugu people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India, where it’s also the official language.
• It’s spoken by roughly 82 million people.

18. Urdu

• Spoken throughout South Asia, Urdu has roughly 230 million speakers.

19. Bodo

• Bodo (also known as Bodo) is a Sino- Tibetan language spoken by the Bodo people of Northeast India, Nepal, and Bengal.
• It has roughly1.4 million speakers.

20. Santhali

• generally spoken in Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura, and West Bengal, Santhali is spoken by roughly2.6 million people.

21. Maithili

• Maithili is an Indo- Aryan language spoken in Nepal and portions of India as it’s spoken in Bihar and north eastern Jharkhand in India.
• It had33.9 million speakers as of the time 2000.

22. Dogri

• Spoken substantially in Jammu of Jammu and Kashmir, it’s also spoken in western Himachal Pradesh, and the northern Punjab region.
• It’s spoken by roughly2.6 million people.