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Language of India
People often ask IAFL Translation & Interpretation Services about the "language of India." The "language of India" question deserves a detailed answer. IAFL Translation & Interpretation Services is India's leading translation agency or language services company and can fulfill all your "language of India" related linguistic services needs.
Currently, India has twenty-three(23) official languages and so there are twenty-three contenders for the "language of India" label. However, the number of strongest contenders for language of India label is around ten(10).
Hindi, the strongest contender for "language of India"
Hindi, the pre-dominant language in North-India is the strongest contender for the "language of India" tag. Hindi, the strongest contender for "language of India" tag, is spoken by more than a third of India's populace. India's current population is more than 1 billion (1000 million) and Hindi, the strongest contender for the "language of India" label, is spoken by nearly four-hundred million people, according to the latest Indian census.
No "language of India"
No Indian language can claim to be "language of India" because India is linguistically very diverse.
India is a relatively vast country and its linguistic diversity can be compared to Europe. Just as it wouldn't be right to call a single European language, the "language of Europe"; similarly, it wouldn't be agreeable to call a single Indian language, the "language of India."
Northern-India is linguistically more homogeneous compared to Southern or Eastern or Western India and Hindi, the strongest contender for the "language of India" label, is intelligible to a large extent in Eastern and Western India too.
Official Indian languages or the contest for becoming the "language of India"
There are literally tens of languages spoken in India, though they are usually intelligible with a major Indian language, and various groups lobby and have successfully lobbied to get their languages entered in the "language of India" contest by getting them recognized as official Indian languages.
In the last decade the number of official Indian languages was eighteen and currently, it stands at twenty-three.
The list of major Indian languages that can claim to be the "language of India" along with the indicative number of speakers, is:
| "Language of India" | Indicative number of speakers |
| Hindi | 337 million |
| Urdu | 250 million |
| Telugu | 100 million |
| Bengali(Bangla) | 69 million |
| Marathi | 62 million |
| Tamil | 53 million |
| Gujarati(Gujurati/Gujerati) | 40 million |
| Kannada | 40 million |
| Malayalam | 30 million |
| Oriya | 28 million |
| Punjabi | 23 million |
| Assamese | 13 million |
| Konkani | 7.5 million |
| Kashmiri(Koshur) | 4.5 million |
| Dogri | 2 million |
| Bodo(Boro) | 1.5 million |
| Manipuri(Meitei) | 1.5
million |
Different Indian languages are spoken in different parts of India and so can claim to be the "language of India"
The major languages of North India are: Hindi,Urdu, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Dogri.
The major languages of South India are: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam.
The major languages of East India are: Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, and Manipuri.
The major languages of Western India are: Gujarati, Marathi and Konkani.
English is also one of India's official languages and a somewhat weak contender for the "language of India" distinction
English is understood throughout India, but less than 5% of the Indians comprehend it well. The English used in India is many times called Indian English and most Indians who understand English well are challenged when words common in the USA or the UK are used.
The reason English is a weak contender of the "language of India" distinction is that English is not widely understood, particularly in the Indian rural areas.
Translating into a language contending for the "language of India" label is critical to the popularity of mass-market products and those with wide appeal.
IAFL Translation & Interpretation Services also provides translations in Pakistan's languages, Bangladesh's language, Sri Lanka's languages, Nepal's language, Afghanistan's languages, Bhutan's languages, Myanmar's language, and Arabic and Farsi.
Know more about the contenders for language of India: <Hindi, Urdu, Dari, Pushto(Pashto/Pushtu/Pukhtu), Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati(Gujurati/Gujerati), Marathi, Tamil,Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,
Sinhala(Sinhalese/Singhalese), Nepali(Nepalese), Tibetan,
Myanmarese(Burmese), Bodo(Boro), Bhutanese, Sanskrit, Assamese,, Konkani, Oriya, Dogri, Manipuri(Meitei) , etc.
For advice regarding which Indian language(s) is/are suitable for your translation needs, please contact us or visit our office. We reply to 95% of all emails within 1 hour, so do contact us or visit our office, for linguistic services in any of the contenders for the "language of India" distinction or a free quote:
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