Language of India

The country India is quite vast with lot of cultural and geographical diversities. This has resulted in a number of different spoken languages in India. Some of these languages of India are accepted nationally, while others are accepted as dialects of particular regions.

The different languages of India with the region they are spoken are:

ASSAMESE/AXOMIYA: A language of Assam that's spoken by nearly 60 percent of the State's population.
Spoken mostly: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh

BENGALI: An official language of West Bengal, now spoken by nearly 200 million people in West Bengal and in Bangladesh.
Spoken mostly: West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and also few regions of Assam

BODO: It is the language spoken by the Bodo people of Assam and comes under the Assam-Burmese group of languages.
Spoken mostly: Assam

DOGRI: Mainly spoken by the people of Jammu region
Spoken mostly: Jammu & Kashmir

GUJARATI: It is the official language of Gujarat. 70 percent of the State's population speak Gujrathi but it the most spread language not only in India but also abroad.
Spoken mostly: dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat

HINDI: The official language of India, accent and dialect differs with different regions but almost every Indian has a working knowledge of Hindi. It is written in a Devanagiri script.
Spoken mostly: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, the national capital territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

KANNADA: A language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's population. It belongs to the Dravidian family.
Spoken mostly: Karnataka

KASHMIRI: Though the language is mistaken as a state language of Kashmir only 55 per cent of the state's population speak Kashmiri.
Spoken mostly: jammu & Kashmir

KONKANI: Spoken in the Konkan region stretched across Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka.
Spoken mostly: Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala

MAITHILI: Mostly spoken in the parts of Bihar and the eastern Terai region of Nepal
Spoken mostly: Bihar

MALAYALAM: The state language of Kerala. It is the youngest of all developed languages in the Dravidian family.
Spoken mostly: Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

MANIPURI/MEITEI: official language of state of Manipur.
Spoken mostly: Manipur

MARATHI: An official language of Maharashtra. It has a fully developed literature of the modern type.
Spoken mostly: Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka

NEPALI: The official language of Nepal, it is also spoken in some north eastern parts of India
Spoken mostly: Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam

ORIYA: A branch of the Indo-Aryan family, is the official language of the State of Orissa.
Spoken mostly: Orissa

PUNJABI: The official language of the State of Punjab. It is written in Gurmukhi script, created by the Sikh Guru, Angad.
Spoken mostly: Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab

SANSKRIT: The classical language of India that has lost it's value in the modern world. It is also one of the oldest languages in the world- perhaps the oldest to be recorded. All the ancient scripts are found to be written in the same language.
Spoken mostly: Non-regional

SANTHALI: Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)
Spoken mostly: Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)

SINDHI: Is spoken by a great number of people in the Northwest frontier of the Indian sub-continent comprising parts of India and Pakistan.
Spoken mostly: Non-regional

TAMIL: The State language of Tamil Nadu. Tamil literature goes back to Centuries before the Christian era and is spoken by more than 73 million people. It belongs to the Dravidian language family.
Spoken mostly: Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry

TELUGU: A language of Andhra Pradesh. It is numerically the biggest linguistic unit in India.
Spoken mostly: Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry

URDU: The state language of Jammu and Kashmir and is spoken by more than 28 million people in India. Urdu and Hindi have proceeded from the same source. Urdu is written in the Persio - Arabic script and contains many words from the Persian language.
Spoken mostly: Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh