Most of the Indian State has their Official Language along with Hindi and English
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There are 121 languages and 270 mother tongues spoken in India. This is the reason why India is of a linguistically diverse country. With so many people speaking so many different languages it would have been hard to talk on a national level. To avoid this problem the constitution of India has 2 official languages, Hindi and English, along with 22 scheduled languages in India.
The official languages spoken in Indian states:
- Andhra Pradesh – Telugu, English
- Arunachal Pradesh – English
- Assam – Assamese, Bengali, Bodo
- Bihar – Hindi, Urdu
- Chhattisgarh – Hindi, Chhattisgarhi
- Goa – Konkani, English, Marathi
- Gujarat – Gujarati, English
- Haryana – Hindi, English, Punjabi
- Himachal Pradesh – Hindi, Sanskrit
- Jharkhand – Hindi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Santali, Urdu and other minor languages
- Karnataka – Kannada, English
- Kerala – Malayalam, English
- Madhya Pradesh – Hindi
- Maharashtra- Marathi
- Manipur – Manipuri, English
- Meghalaya – English, Khasi, Garo
- Mizoram – Mizo, English Hindi
- Nagaland – English
- Odisha – Oriya
- Punjab – Punjabi
- Rajasthan – Hindi
- Sikkim – English, Nepali, Sikkimese, Lepcha and other minor languages
- Tamil Nadu – Tamil, English
- Telangana – Telugu, Urdu
- Tripura – Bengali, English, Kokborok
- Uttar Pradesh – Hindi, Urdu
- Uttarakhand – Hindi, Sanskrit
- West Bengal – Bengali, English, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Oriya, Santali, Punjabi, Telugu, etc.
Official languages of the Union Territories:
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands – Hindi, English
- Chandigarh – English
- Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli – Gujarati, Konkani, Marathi, Hindi
- Delhi – Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi
- Lakshadweep – Malayalam, English
- Jammu and Kashmir – Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi, Urdu, English
- Ladakh – Hindi, English
- Puducherry – Tamil, French, English, Telugu, Malayalam
Most of the states mentioned above either as Hindi or English listed as their official language but along with that there are also other languages. This is because in all the states of India different languages are spoken by majority of the people. These people might know either Hindi or English or both but still they choose to speak their mother tongue. This was the sole reason to include 22 languages in the list of Scheduled Languages of India because people from all region and culture should feel equally important irrespective what they speak.
