Languages of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families
(total of official languages: 23, including 22 8th Schedule languages and one additional official language, English)
A danger sign in India containing eight languages, all using different scripts.
A pentalingual highway sign in Kochi written in Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.
Fastest growing languages of India — Hindi (first), Kashmiri (second), Gujarati & Meitei/Manipuri (third), Bengali (fourth) — based on 2011 census of India
As of 2025, 22 languages have been classified as scheduled languages under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. There is no national language of India. Hindi and English share official la
In places like railway stations, signboards are usually written in three languages - the state language (here Odia) and the two official languages Hindi and English.