The Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution recognises 22 languages as scheduled languages. These are: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili and Dogri.

No, it is the official language of India. On September 14, 1949, the Constituent Assembly adopted Hindi as the official language of the Union. The Constitution of India designates English and Hindi as the official languages of the Government of India.

Hindi has nearly 500 million speakers all over the world. It is the fourth most-spoken language worldwide.

8 languages. Sindhi, Konkani, Nepali, Manipuri, Maithili, Dogri, Bodo and Santhali are the languages which were added to the 8th Schedule of the Constitution. Only 14 languages were initially included in the Constitution.

English is NOT one of the recognised languages of India. As per the 8th Schedule of the Constitution, there are 22 languages that are given recognition, but English is not one of them.

English is the official language of the Supreme Court and High Courts as directed by the Constitution of India.

Sanskrit is the second official language of Uttarakhand. Under Article 345 of the Constitution, the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly has passed the proposal to make Hindi the official language and Sanskrit the second official language of Uttarakhand.

Tamil. The earliest discovered written examples of Tamil date back to 300 BC. However, scientists say Tamil first appeared around 2,500 BC. Sanskrit is the second oldest, dating back to 2,000 BC in its earliest written form.

More than 19,500 languages or dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues. There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 135 crore.

13! There are 22 major languages in India, written in 13 different scripts, with over 720 dialects. The official Indian languages are Hindi and English.