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Officially Recognized Languages of India

There are 23 languages that are officially recognized by the Constitution of India. How many can you name?
Native speakers in 2011 according to Wikipedia
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First submittedJune 21, 2016
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Official Languages
# Native
Language
226,000
English
528,000,000
Hindi
Schedule 8 Languages
# Native
Language
15,300,000
Assamese
97,200,000
Bengali
1,480,000
Bodo
2,600,000
Dogri
55,500,000
Gujarati
528,000,000
Hindi
43,700,000
Kannada
6,800,000
Kashmiri
2,260,000
Konkani
13,600,000
Maithili
34,800,000
Malayalam
# Native
Language
1,760,000
Manipuri
83,000,000
Marathi
2,930,000
Nepali
37,500,000
Odia
33,000,000
Punjabi
none
Sanskrit
7,400,000
Santali
2,780,000
Sindhi
69,000,000
Tamil
81,000,000
Telugu
50,800,000
Urdu
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45 Comments
foxpenguin
+6
Level 67
Jan 24, 2017
How about Nepalese for Nepali?
AllenY
+1
Level 68
Apr 27, 2017
Indeed
Algernon
+5
Level 74
Feb 10, 2017
Surprised Sinhalese isn't there.
sacheth9
+23
Level 65
Sep 29, 2020
Not much of a Sri Lankan diaspora in India
kzn05
+4
Level 56
Mar 15, 2017
Sinhalese or Sinhala is the language of the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka. Sinhalese is the biggest ethnic group in Sri Lanka and while India has people of Tamil ethnicity like Sri Lanka, there are no native Sinhalese people in India.
3275
+1
Level 25
Mar 15, 2017
That is Santhali
immanuel
+8
Level 88
May 12, 2017
are you speak canadian?
AbhishekNS
+9
Level 59
Jun 23, 2020
Lol, Canada has nothing to do with Kannada. The former is a soveriegn nation in North America while the later is the regional language of Karnataka state of India. It just has similar spellings.
AppuzGamingyt
+4
Level 37
Dec 19, 2021
Kannada is the official language of a state in India and canadian is not even a language
WhatIsLove
+21
Level 63
Sep 14, 2022
Guys... he was joking
Saphyra
+6
Level 44
Sep 19, 2022
r/whoosh
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
May 12, 2017
People still speak Sanskrit? hm...
PSTSCCH
+2
Level 46
May 12, 2017
My eyebrows raised too.
dragaan
+19
Level 47
May 12, 2017
Sanskrit is great language. yuge.

It's actually spoken as a native language by a small village of more than 14000 people in northern India, the state in which it is a secondary official language after Hindi.

Recently there were talks of making it mandatory in all schools, it already is taught in many schools, seeing it is basically like the Latin for most Indians.

GeoPhilia
+4
Level 57
Apr 1, 2020
I can easily understand, read and write Sanskrit despite being only 14.
shyamboss
+2
Level 22
May 12, 2017
English is not an official language yet most understandable language .
Viztiz
+4
Level 57
Oct 8, 2023
English is one of the two official languages of India.
IBRK
+6
Level 77
May 12, 2017
MORE TIME
Jacktheguy
+12
Level 93
May 12, 2017
Is 2 minutes really enough time to think of all these different languages? I would say no.
MostCantalach
+1
Level 71
Mar 31, 2026
Yeah PLEASE more time
Balikati
+1
Level 71
Aug 20, 2017
I always thought Urdu was one of schedule 8 languages
kogatora
+2
Level 96
Jan 16, 2019
its on the list
redsplat
+4
Level 72
Oct 15, 2017
Great quiz. But more time please!!
Kitts
+8
Level 43
Jan 22, 2018
Meitelion should be accepted as well. It is one of the alternate names of Manipuri.
srbhat
+1
Level 57
Aug 3, 2018
Do update the numbers as the language data from the 2011 Census has recently been released by the Government.
bluesdjben
+1
Level 74
May 7, 2020
I got three more correct than the last time I took this quiz thanks to having done a lot of research on Indian movies last year.
sacheth9
+2
Level 65
Jul 7, 2020
Interesting how English is the second least-spoken language in India despite being one of the two official languages there.
Idontknowok
+17
Level 50
Jul 29, 2020
A lot of people in India do speak and Understand English, its just not many people's first language.
sacheth9
+1
Level 65
Sep 16, 2020
Yeah
AppuzGamingyt
+1
Level 37
Dec 19, 2021
But still it's quite low
AntiMatter8192
+3
Level 78
Sep 14, 2022
Not many people have been converted to having English as a first language. In fact, I'm actually surprised there are native English speaking communities in India, unless the data also counts immigrants.
AntiMatter8192
+2
Level 78
Sep 15, 2022
After having a day to think about it, it turns out that I could be considered an Indian that speaks English as a native language. Bruh.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Aug 30, 2024
I think the natives English speakers are just the anglo indian community
deepfern
+2
Level 66
Oct 24, 2024
"I think the native English speakers are just the anglo-Indian community"

Not really. The Anglo-Indian community (or Eurasian) community is so tiny as to be nearly non-existent any more as they have heavily inter-married.

English is the native language for many of the elit

Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Aug 15, 2025
There are 150,000-ish anglo-indians, so a majority of the native English speakers are probably them. The rest is probably expats.
AlexThirkell
+6
Level 74
Sep 14, 2022
Extremely short on time, I don't think I could've completed it even if I had heard of them all.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Feb 15, 2023
It's completable
CanadianGeo96
+2
Level 61
Sep 16, 2022
Managed to get Nepali but forgot about Hindi. Ahh, JetPunk-itis, we meet again.
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Mar 8, 2023
Fancy a challenge?

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1744710/languages-of-india-by-script

strawberryaddict
+2
Level 60
Jun 5, 2023
nice, but MORE TIME PLEASE
LAlphy
+4
Level 66
Oct 20, 2023
Meitei should be accepted for Manipuri
Sebbel
+1
Level 20
Jun 16, 2025
why so much time :D
KanishkGGo
+1
Level 43
Apr 13, 2026
I completed with 0:00 seconds left somehow
LooserFromIndia
+1
Level 50
Oct 7, 2025
Even I couldn't get full 23/23 despite being indian 😭 🙏
KanishkGGo
+1
Level 43
Apr 13, 2026
23/23 0:00 SECONDS LEFT. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE.
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