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
|
|
Schedule 8 Languages
|
# 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
|
|
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.
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
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1744710/languages-of-india-by-script