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States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Arabic English Bangladesh: 1 Bengali: ... India: 2 Hindi; English [59] ... Nepali [67] all languages spoken as the mother tongue in Nepal [68]
Tajik is spoken by people closer to Tajikistan, although officially, is regarded to be the same as Dari. Pashto is widely spoken by the Pashtun people, who mainly reside towards the south of Afghanistan on the Pakistani-Afghan border. A few Turkic languages, like Uzbek and Turkmen, are spoken near regions closer to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. [1] Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy).
Bengali is the seventh most-spoken language in the world, and has a strong literary tradition; the national anthems of India and Bangladesh are written in Bengali. Assamese and Odia are the official languages of Assam and Odisha, respectively. The Eastern Indo-Aryan languages descend from Magadhan Apabhraṃśa [24] and ultimately from Magadhi ...
Nepali is the third-most spoken language in the Australian state of Tasmania, where it is spoken by 1.3% of its population, [51] and fifth-most spoken language in the Northern Territory, Australia, spoken by 1.3% of its population. [52] Nepali is the most spoken language other than English in Rockdale and Kogarah.
Santali is spoken by 0.67% of India's population. [214] [215] About 7 million people speak this language. [216] It is also spoken in Bangladesh and Nepal. [217] [218] The language is major tribal language of Jharkhand and thus Santhal community is demanding to make it as the official language of Jharkhand. [219]
The political milieu in many countries uses international languages most of the time, but trans-border languages are often used, in an informal or an official manner. Following the resolution of the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea , Eritrea uses Tigrinya and Arabic as working languages.