The official language of the Union of India is Hindi and the Devanagari script is mentioned in article 343.
English is the official language of the Supreme Court and High Court as directed by the Constitution of India since 1963 when the Official Languages Act was passed.
The official language of the Union uses Arabic numerals.
Article 343 of the Constitution of India states that Hindi will be the official language, but English will also be used for 15 years
The 8th schedule is related to languages. Currently, there are 22 official languages(originally 14 languages) listed in the schedule of the Indian Constitution.
Classical languages because of their long history – Tamil(2004), Sanskrit(2005), Kannada(2008), Telugu(2008), Malayalam(2013), and Odia(2014).
14 languages were initially included in the Constitution in 1950 – Sanskrit, Assamese(Assam), Bengali(West Bengal, Tripura), Gujarati(Gujrat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu), Hindi(North India), Kannada(Karnataka), Kashmiri(Jammu and Kashmir), Malayalam(Kerala), Marathi(Maharashtra), Urdu(Jammu and Kashmir), Odia(Odisha), and Punjabi(Punjab), Tamil(Tamil Nadu) Telugu(Andhra Pradesh and Telangana).
The spelling Oriya was replaced by Odia by the 96th Constitutional Amendment Act in 2011.
Sindhi was added by the 21st Constitutional Amendment Act in 1967. Sindhi is not the official language of any state but is spoken by nearly three million Indians, mainly in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.
Konkani(Goa), Manipuri(Manipur), and Nepali(Sikkim)were added by the 71st Constitutional Amendment Act in 1992.
Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, and Santali were added by the 92nd Constitutional Amendment Act in 2003.
Bodo is the official language of Bodoland, Assam. Dogri is the official language in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir. Maithili is the additional official language in the Mithila region of Jharkhand. Santali is the additional official language of Jharkhand, West Bengal.
500 million speakers all over the world speak Hindi. It is the third most spoken language worldwide.
Bengali and Punjabi are included in the list of top 10 languages.
People of Mattur Village in Karnataka, speak to each other in Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is the second official language of Uttarakhand.
Telugu is known as the ‘Italian of the East’.
French is commonly spoken in Puducherry.
All the major Indian epics are written in Sanskrit.
English is not the official language of India. English is written in Latin script.
Around 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Prakrit and Sanskrit.
Nearly all Indian scripts come from the same script Brahmi, the oldest script of India. Brahmi script is written left to right.
Bramhi is the ancient form of Devanagari script in which Hindi is written.
James Prinshep deciphered the inscription of Ashoka and the Bramhi script in 1837 AD.
Tamil and Sanskrit are one of the oldest languages in the world.
February 21 was declared the “International Mother Language Day” by UNESCO in 1999 to commemorate the Bengali Language movement which took place in 1952.
The people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands also speak Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Nicobarese, Tamil, and Telugu.
Sanskrit is quite popular in Germany. More than 10 universities in Germany offer Sanskrit as a subject.
Punjabi language is written in Gurmukhi script which was introduced by Guru Angad Dev Ji.
Southern India belongs to the Dravidian language family.
Mysuru is the central institute of Indian languages located.
Hyderabad is the Central of English and Foreign Languages University located.
Amir Khusro played a pioneering role in the development of the Khari Boli language. He was a court poet of Alauddin Khilji and is known as the Parrot of India.
Kannada is known as the queen of all the languages of the world.
Trihuta script is used to write the Maithili language.
Sahitya Academy promotes and develops literature in all the 22 languages of India.