Indian Languages -Recognised regional languages inlcuded in the Eighth Schedule

The official language of the Republic of India is Hindi with English as an additional language for official work states in India can legislate their own official languages.Neither the Constitution of India, nor any Indian law defines any national language.

States specify their own official language(s) through legislation. The section of the Constitution of India dealing with official languages therefore includes detailed provisions which deal not just with the languages used for the official purposes of the union,but also with the languages that are to be used for the official purposes of each state and union territory in the country, and the languages that are to be used for communication between the union and the states
Recognised regional languages inlcuded in the Eighth Schedule are the following.
Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Dogri
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Santali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu

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