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	Official language of India
		The official language of the Moghul courts was Persian.
		After India’s independence when Hindi was chosen as the official language of India, different ‘Hindi’ language speakers began demanding official recognition of their languages.
		Besides the languages officially recognized by central or state governments, there are other languages which don’t have this recognition and their speakers are running political struggles to get this recognition.
	adaniel.tripod.com /Languages2.htm (1133 words)

	List of national languages of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These languages are entitled to representation on the Official Language Commission, and a candidate in an examination conducted for national government service may opt to take the exam in any of these languages.
		Urdu — official language of Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh
		Mahl — language of Minicoy, spoken in the island of Minicoy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_national_languages_of_India (866 words)

	Languages of India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hindi, apart from being an official language of the Union of India, is the official language of the states Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
		An official language, and the main language of Hindu liturgy, Sanskrit is used in rituals and ceremonies or as part of daily prayers in Hinduism.
		Though not prevalent in every-day use, it is interestingly being revived as a spoken tongue in the village of Mattur, in the Shimoga district of Karnataka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indian_languages (1463 words)

	RBC RADIO - Languages of India
		Hindi is the principal official language of India.
		The ancestors of this language are the Indo-Aryan.
		It is the official language of the State of Orissa, where the Oriya speaking population comprises around 82% of the total population.
	www.rbcradio.com /knowlanguages.html (1706 words)

	languages in india (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of the languages in India can be classified as belonging to one of the two families: The Aryan language family or the Dravidian Languages family.
		The Languages that are spoken in the five states of south India belong to the Dravidian family.
		Apart from these 18 languages, there are a host of other languages, which are recognized by the central government, though not as official languages of the country.
	www.artofindia.net /languages_in_india.htm (360 words)

	Indian Languages, Languages Of India, Official Language Of India, Regional Languages In India, Indian Constitution.
		The part that describes the official language of the Indian democracy have to be written to promote a feeling of unity among Indian citizens.
		The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals.
		The language for the time being authorised for use in the Union for official purposes shall be the official language for communication between one State and another State and between a State and the Union:
	www.iloveindia.com /constitution-of-india/languages.html (438 words)

	Languages of Bharat Heritage - India
		Languages spoken in the five states of South India belong to the Dravidian family and most of the languages spoken in the North India are of Aryan family.
		Some of the present India's states boundaries created were based on the boundaries of the main Indian languages as recognized by the Indian constitution.
		Despite the different languages and dialects, most of the official languages speakers have developed a standard of speaking language which has become the accepted style of speaking for that language.
	www.bharatheritage.in /languages.htm (937 words)

	Telugu
		Telugu is the predominant language of the state of Andhra Pradesh.
		Telugu is one of the official languages of India.
		See also: Demographics of India for a list of the official languages of India.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/te/Telugu.html (74 words)

	Travel The World With A to Z Kids Stuff
		He was the architect of India's freedom and one of the greatest men of the 20th century.
		The commonest species of monkeys found in India are the rhesus monkey and the Hanuman monkey, a type of langur.
		India is separated from the rest of Asia by the immense Himalayan ranges in the north.
	www.atozkidsstuff.com /india.html (569 words)

	Language of India,Indian Languages,official Language of India
		India has nothing less than 1652 mother tongues, if all the various dialects of each parent language are to be included!
		Most of the languages are limited to a small number of peoples, and only 33 of them are spoken by more than a lakh people.
		English remains the additional official language; it is the authoritative legislative and judicial language.
	www.indiasite.com /language (299 words)

	North India Online - Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttaranchal
		The dominant geographic features of northern India are the Himalayas and its foothills along with the plains of Yamuna, Sutluj and Beas.
		The economy of northern India, especially the region surrounding the Delhi metropolitan area is growing at a remarkable pace.
		The languages of northern India are preponderantly Indo-Aryan, and it is in this region that Sanskrit and the various Prakrits are thought to have first found a home in India.
	www.north-india.in (427 words)

	Languages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These were Saurseni, Magadhi and Maharashtri.The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka with significant areas in Pakistan (Brahui), Nepal(Kurukh) and eastern (Kurukh, Malto) and central (Gondi) India.
		Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families.
		English is the one of the principal and official languages of India.
	www.bath.ac.uk /~nl210/languages.htm (378 words)

	Languages of India
		The northern branch comprising Brahui spoken in Baluchistan and Kurukh and Malto spoken in Bengal and Orissa.
		Tamil, the state language of Tamil Nadu, apparently the oldest and the purest branch of the Dravidian family.
		Malayalam, the state language of Kerala, the smallest and the youngest of the Dravidian family.
	www.indiansaga.com /languages/dravidian_lang.html (323 words)

	Languages and Literature
		Hindi and English are the co-official national languages of India.
		In addition, the Indian constitution recognizes 18 state languages, which are used in schools and in official transactions.
		The regional languages have been recognized as the official language of the States.
	www.diehardindian.com /demogrph/language.htm (193 words)

	Dravidian Language Family
		At present, speakers of the Dravidian languages are concentrated in the southern portion of India, while speakers of the Indo-Aryan language predominate in the northern portion of the country.
		Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada are official languages of India.
		All four languages are characterized by a dichotomy between the standardized, formal language and colloquial speech.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/april/DravidianLanguageFamily.htm (687 words)

	OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNION : India.Allhere.com - Indian Languages, Languages Of India, Official Language Of India, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNION : India.Allhere.com - Indian Languages, Languages Of India, Official Language Of India, Regional Languages In India, Indian Constitution
		As we know that even today anywhere between 300 to 1,000 languages are spoken in India, this makes an integral part of the Indian constitution.
		Provided that if two or more States agree that the Hindi language should be the official language for communication between such States, that language may be used for such communication.
	k.domaindlx.com /MyIndia/Languages.asp (418 words)

	Mauritius Andhra Maha Sabha - Telugu in Mauritius - Mauritius Youth Wing (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Telugu belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
		It is also one among the 19 official national languages of India.
		The Telugu languages are part of the South-central branch of the Dravidian languages.
	www.mauritiustelugu.com /telugu.html (421 words)

	Reporters sans frontières - India - 2004 Annual Report
		Officials confirmed to the newspaper’s editors that it had been dropped from the list of news media receiving advertising.
		News channels that were broadcast in India would have to register in India and a majority of their executives would have to reside there.
		The attorney general of India, Soli Sorabjee, told the supreme court on 23 April that journalists would have to reveal their sources if justified by the needs of an investigation into terrorism.
	www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=10086 (5603 words)

	Official language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometimes an indigenous language is declared an official language (eg.
		Sometimes a non-native language is declared an official language (eg.
		English is one of the official languages of India)
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~indv101/policy1/tsld003.htm (29 words)

	AEGiS: India
		The subcontinent was divided into the secular state of India and the smaller Muslim state of Pakistan.
		India extends nearly 2000 km from the Limpopo River in the north to Cape Agulhas in the south and nearly 1500 km form Port Nolloth in the west to the eastern port city of Durban.
		India has had a sharp increase in the estimated number of HIV infections, from a few thousand in the early 1990s to a working estimate of about 4 million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS in 2001.
	www.aegis.com /countries/india.html (1652 words)

	My India Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A federal republic of southern Asia and member of the Commonwealth, India is situated on a peninsula extending into the Indian Ocean, with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to the east.
		The main official languages of India are Hindi and English.
		Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition.
	www.schopra.com /india_page.htm (1069 words)

	Indian Language - Sanskrit - Crystalinks
		Sanskrit is mostly used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras.
		Its pre-classical form of Vedic Sanskrit, the liturgical language of the Vedic religion, is one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, its most ancient text being the Rigveda.
		Finally, there is also a language dubbed "Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit" by scholars, which is actually a prakrit ornamented with Sanskritized elements, perhaps for purposes of ostentation (see also termination of spoken Sanskrit).
	www.crystalinks.com /indialanguage.html (966 words)

	Malayalam Information Center - malayalam actress reshma
		Malayalam (മലയാളം;) is the language of the state of Kerala, in southern India.
		As the language of scholarship and administration Tamil greatly influenced the early development malayalam kambi kathakal of Malayalam.
		The Malayalam script, of the Malayalam language spoken in Southern India, Kerala, is a descendant of the Grantha script.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_M_-_O/Malayalam.html (931 words)

	Linguistic States India
		By necessity, a substantial minority are able to speak two Indian languages; even in the so-called linguistic states, there are minorities who do not speak the official language as their native tongue and must therefore learn it as a second language.
		To fulfill its purposes, the regional language must be standardized and taught to an increasing percentage of the population, thereby encroaching both on its own dialects and the minority languages of the region.
		The language of instruction and administration affects the economic and career interests and the self-respect of an ever-greater proportion of the population.
	www.indianchild.com /linguistic_states_india.htm (1921 words)

	Political Aspects of British India
		Language and religion are the basic factors that shape culture; hundreds of years of colonization spread the English culture into India.
		In India, there is a Prime Minister who is the head of the Council of Ministers.
		The framing of the The Indian Constitution began in 1947, later that year; India gained its independence after 89 years of British control.
	members.tripod.com /~IndiaProject/political.html (555 words)

	Telugu Information Center - telugu masala
		Telugu (తెలుగు;) belongs to the family of Dravidian languages and is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
		It is also one among the 23 official national languages of India.
		It is the official language of the state of Andhra Pradesh
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_T_-_Z/Telugu.html (1216 words)

	Talk:OLPC India - OLPCWiki
		Even though English is used as the language of the educated classes to facilitate communication amongst different regions, the vast majority of India's one billion people do not know English at all or else they vaguely remember a bit from their high-school lessons.
		I'm an American who's never been to India, but my impression is that virtually any person in India who has graduated from secondary school will have some knowledge of English, and nearly all college graduates will know it quite well, but that in the villages of India, children will speak the local language.
		A good collection of ebooks if the first and foremost requirement and as their is a shotage of memory,the ebooks must be updated according to the needs of the students.This might be done by a few individuals who may be assigned the task for a particular district and so on.
	wiki.laptop.org /index.php/Talk:OLPC_India (7905 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		It referred to the mixed Western Hindi-Urdu language that developed in the camps and marketplaces around Delhi, was spread throughout India from the 16th to 18th century, and functioned as a lingua franca among the different language groups.
		In India, Punjabi is close to the Hindi language; to the west, in Pakistan, Punjabi dialects differ markedly.
		Other significant Indic languages include Sinhalese, the official language of Sri Lanka; and Romani, the language of the Roma (Gypsies), which originated in India and was spread throughout the world.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/history_india_languages.cfm (2421 words)

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