Languages with official status in India

Language map of India

This is a list of languages with official status, in India:

• Assamese
• Bengali
• Bodo
• Dogri
• Gujarati
• English
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Kashmiri
• Konkani
• Maithili
• Malayalam
• Manipuri (Meitei)
• Marathi
• Nepali
• Odia
• Punjabi
• Sanskrit
• Santali
• Sindhi
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Urdu

Languages With Official Status In India Media

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  A pentalingual highway sign in Kochi written in Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada.

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  The front cover of a contemporary Indian passport, with the national emblem and inscriptions in the two official languages of Hindi and English.

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  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.