OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES

The following table lists the official languages, aside from English, set out in the eighth schedule as of May 2008:

1
Language Assamese/Axomiya
Family Indo-Aryan, Eastern
State(s) Assam, Arunachal Pradesh

2
Language Bengali
Family Indo-Aryan, Eastern
State(s) West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and also few regions of Assam

3
Language Bodo
Family Tibeto-Burman
State(s) Assam

4
Language Dogri
Family Indo-Aryan, Northwestern
State(s) Jammu and Kashmir

5
Language Gujarati
Family Indo-Aryan, Western
State(s) Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat

6
Language Standard Hindi
Family Indo-Aryan, Central
State(s) Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, the national capital territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

7
Language Kannada
Family Dravidian
State(s) Karnataka.

8
Language Kashmiri
Family Indo-Aryan, Dardic
State(s) Jammu and Kashmir

9
Language Konkani
Family Indo-Aryan, Southern
State(s) Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala

10
Language Maithili
Family Indo-Aryan, Eastern
State(s) Bihar

11
Language Malayalam
Family Dravidian
State(s) Kerala, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Puducherry

12
Language Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei)
Family Tibeto-Burman
State(s) Manipur

13
Language Marathi
Family Indo-Aryan, Southern
State(s) Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka

14
Language Nepali
Family Indo-Aryan, Northern
State(s) Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam

15
Language Oriya
Family Indo-Aryan, Eastern
State(s) Orissa

16
Language Punjabi
Family Indo-Aryan, Northwestern
State(s) Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab

17
Language Sanskrit
Family Indo-Aryan
State(s) non-regional

18
Language Santhali
Family Munda
State(s) Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa)

19
Language Sindhi
Family Indo-Aryan, Northwestern
State(s) non-regional

20
Language Tamil
Family Dravidian
State(s) Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry;

21
Language Telugu
Family Dravidian
State(s) Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry;

22
Language Urdu
Family Indo-Aryan, Central
State(s) Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh