Indian languages
Sanskrit and descendants
Indian languages refers to languages spoken in India or, in American contexts, to languages of Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
India has hundreds of languages across multiple families—Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu among the most spoken.
American Indian languages include Navajo, Cherokee, and Lakota.
Context usually clarifies which region is meant: She studies Indian languages at the university.
- HindiIndia's official language
- native speakersThose who grew up using a language
- AssameseIndo-Aryan northeastern tongue
- oral traditionsCulture transmitted through speech
- BengaliLanguage of Bangladesh
Kashmiri · Tamil · Sanskrit · Rajasthani · vernaculars · regional dialects · Telugu · Malayalam · Marathi · mother tongue · Gujarati · Punjabi · Urdu · Kannada · multilingualism · dialects · Kannada
Indian languagesEuropean languages
Tongues from that continent
African languages · Romance languages · Slavic languages · Scandinavian languages · American English
Indian languagesEnglish
Britain's native tongue
British English · Portuguese · French · Queen's English · foreign languages
Indian languagesnational language
State-designated speech system
lingua franca · standard language · Icelandic · Japanese · Korean
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