Official State Languages query

mrabe at artic.edu mrabe at artic.edu
Thu Aug 15 17:03:54 UTC 1996


According to the World Almanac that comes with _Where in the World is
Carmen San Diego_ India has 16 major languages...

Can anyone confirm that this is the set and order of appearance of the 13
that appear (plus English) on Indian currency notes:

Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Hindi, Oriya, Punjabi,
Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

Presumably, Hindi gets pride of center place.

So, my related query is this: how many official state languages are there
all told and which are the additional ones?








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