Languages Spoken in India

As per the 2011 Census,29 'languages' have more than a million native speakers, 60 have more than 100,000 and about 122 languages spoken by more than 10,000 people. Of them 22 are the scheduled languages. Other than the 122 languages, the survey has come up with languages that are spoken by less than 10,000 people many from tribal areas, nomadic communities and from the interiors of north-eastern part of the country

There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India. Arunachal Pradesh is the richest among the States with 90 languages;Assam with 55 languages, Gujarat 48, Maharashtra 39, and West Bengal 38 languages.

The Constitution of India states that "The official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagiri script(Article 343(1) )However, languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian constitution are sometimes referred to, without legal standing, as the national languages of India.The GOI has given 22 "languages of the 8th Schedule" the status of official language.

Article 345 of the constitution authorizes the several states of India to adopt as "official languages" of that state — which people of that state can then use in all dealings with all branches of the local, state and federal governments — either Standard Hindi or any one or more of the languages spoken in that state

22 Languages in the Eighth Schedule

S No	Language	Spoken in
1	Assamese	Assam,Arunachal Pradesh
2	Bengali	West Bengal,Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
3	Bodo	Assam
4	Dogri	Jammu and Kashmir(JK)
5	Gujarati	Dadra & Nagar Haveli,Daman and Diu,Gujarat
6	Hindi	Andaman & Nicobar Islands,Arunachal Pradesh,Bihar,Chandigarh,Chhattisgarh,Delhi,Haryana,HP,Jharkhand,MP,Rajasthan,UP and Uttarakhand
7	Kannada	Karnataka
8	Kashmiri	Jammu and Kashmir(JK)
9	Konkani	Goa,Karnataka,Maharashtra,Kerala
10	Maithili	Bihar
11	Malayalam	Kerala, Andaman & Nicobar Islands,Lakshadweep and Puducherry
12	Manipuri	Manipur
13	Marathi	Maharashtra,Goa,Dadra & Nagar Haveli,Daman and Diu,Madhya Pradesh
14	Nepali	Sikkim,West Bengal and Assam
15	Oriya	Odisha
16	Punjabi	Chandigarh,Delhi,Haryana and Punjab
17	Sankrit
18	Santhali	Santhal Tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau(comprising Bihar,chattisgarh,Jharkhand,Odisha)
19	Sindhi	Non-Regional
20	Tamil	Tamil Nadu,Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Islands
21	Telugu	Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Islands
22	Urdu	J&K,AP,Delhi,Bihar,UP and Uttarakhand