The foundations of Hindi lie in the 5000-year-old tongue of the Aryan immigrants, Sanskrit. Hindi borrows flavors from Dravidian, Turkish, Arabic, Portuguese and English. A richly expressive and simple language, the language of poetry and songs. Hindi is also the mother tongue of about 20% of the Indian population. English language is the commonly used official language of India. It enjoys a special status and remains the additional official language. India has 22 languages which have been given the grade of National Languages.
- Business language - English
- Official language - Hindi & English
- Other languages - Sindhi, Sanskrit
- Vedic language - Sanskrit
| State | Language Spoken |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands | Andamanese |
| Andhra Pradesh | Telugu, Hyderabad city - Telugu plus Urdu |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Bengali Nepali, Hindi,Assamese |
| Assam | Assamese |
| Bihar | Hindi, Bhojpuri, Maithini, Santhali, Angika, numerous others, Bengali, Urdu |
| Chhattisgarh | Hindi, Bengali and Oriya |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | Gujarati Hindi, Konkani, Marathi |
| Daman and Diu | Gujarati Hindi, Marathi |
| Delhi | Hindi, English, Punjabi & numerous others |
| Gujarat | Gujarati |
| Goa | Konkani |
| Haryana | Hindi, Haryanvi |
| Himanchal Pradesh | Hindi, Pahadi |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Dogri, Kashmiri, Ladakhi, Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi |
| Jharkhand | Santhali, Mundari, Kurukh, Khortha, Nagpuria, Sadri, Khariya, Panchparagnia, Ho, Malto, Karmali, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali |
| Karnataka | Kannad |
| Kerala | Malayalam |
| Lakshadweep Islands | Malayalam |
| Madhya Pradesh | Hindi, Urdu |
| Maharashtra | Hindi, Marathi |
| Meghalaya | Garo, Khasi |
| Manipur | Manipuri, Nepali, Hindi, Bengali |
| Mizoram | Mizo |
| Nagaland | Naga |
| Orissa | Oriya |
| Puducherry | Tamil Telugu, Kannada, Urdu |
| Punjab | Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu |
| Rajasthan | Hindi, Rajasthani, Marwadi and urdu |
| Sikkim | Nepali, Lepcha, Bhutia |
| Tamil Nadu | Tamil |
| Tripura | Tripuri, Bengali, Kuki |
| Uttar Pradesh | Hindi, Brijbhasha, Pahadi, Avadhi, Bhojpuri,Urdu and numerous others |
| Uttrakhand | Hindi Urdu, Punjabi and Nepali |
The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.
- - Sir William Jones (English scholar).In philology, our Sanskrit language is now universally acknowledged to be the foundation of all European languages, which, in fact, are nothing but jargonized Sanskrit.
- Swami Vivekananda.
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