India National Language

National Language of India

A national language is a language which has some connection—de facto or de jure—with a people and perhaps by extension the territory they occupy. The term is used variously. A national language may for instance represent the national identity of a nation or country.

The principal official language of the Republic of India is Standard Hindi, while English is the secondary official language.The country has 25 States, 6 Union territories with a national capital at New-Delhi. Different languages are spoken in all the states.

A few years after independences, the Indian States were re-divided  based major languages. Though Hindi was adopted as the official national language, many Indian States feel that imposition of Hindi would spoil their individual languages and culture.

India has 18 Recognized Officially Spoken Languages.Some of them are listed below.

• Bengali is the official language of West Bengal.
• Gujarati is the official language of the state of Gujarat.
• Hindi is numerically the biggest of the Indo-Aryan family and is the official language of India. In six states and union Territories, Hindi is the official language.
• Kashmiri is the state language of Jammu and Kashmir. 
• Kannada is the state language of Karnataka.
• Konkani is the official language of Goa.
• Malayalam is the official language of the state of Kerala.
• Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra.
• Oriya is the official language of the State of Orissa.
• Punjabi is the official language of the State of Punjab.
• Sindhi is spoken by a great number of people. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan family and preserved some of the archaic characteristics of the Indo-Aryan script.
• Tamil is the State language of Tamil Nadu.
• Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken by the people of Andhra Pradesh.
• Urdu is the State language of Jammu and Kashmir.