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INDIA AND ITS LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

India is diverse in terms of culture, practices, cuisines, languages,festival, sects and many more.

But one thing that makes it even more special is it's linguistic diversity.

We have 22 Scheduled languages (Constitutionally protected) and about 122 major and 1600 other mother tongues.

But ironically we don't have any National Language.

Here is a list of most popular languages of respective states of India:

S.n	State	Official Language	Second Official Language(s)
1.	West Bengal	Bengali and English	Nepali, Urdu, Hindi, Odia, Santali, Rajbanshi, Kurmali, Punajbi, Kamtapuri, Kurukh, and Telugu
2.	Uttarakhand	Hindi	Sanskrit
3.	Uttar Pradesh	Hindi	Urdu
4.	Tripura	Bengali, English, and Kokborok	–
5.	Telangana	Telugu	Urdu
6.	Tamil Nadu	Tamil	English
7.	Sikkim	English, Nepali, Sikkimese, and Lepcha	Gurung, Mukhia, Newari, Rai, Limbu, Magar, Sherpa, and Tamang
8.	Rajasthan	Hindi	–
9.	Punjab	Punjabi	–
10.	Odisha	Odia	–
11.	Nagaland	English	–
12.	Mizoram	Mizo	English and Hindi
13.	Meghalaya	English	Khasi and Garo
14.	Manipur	Manipuri	English
15.	Maharashtra	Marathi	–
16.	Madhya Pradesh	Hindi	–
17.	Kerala	Malayalam	English
18.	Karnataka	Kannada	English
19.	Jharkhand	Hindi	Angika, Bengali, Khortha, Kurmali, Kurukh, Bhojpuri, Ho, Kharia, Magahi, Maithili, Mundari, Santali, Nagpuri, Odia, and Urdu
20.	Himachal Pradesh	Hindi	Sanskrit
21.	Haryana	Hindi	English and Punjabi
22.	Gujarat	Gujarati	Hindi
23.	Goa	Konkani and English	Marathi
24.	Chhattisgarh	Hindi	Chhattisgarhi
25.	Bihar	Hindi	Urdu
26.	Assam	Assamese	Bengali and Bodo
27.	Arunachal Pradesh	English	–
28.	Andhra Pradesh	Telugu	English

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