Do people from India know their original language or do they only know English?

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Ayush S

Languages of India

There are 22 languages recognized by the Indian Constitution. These languages are

Assamese
Bengali
Bodo
Dogri
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Kashmiri
Konkani
Maithili
Malayalam
Manipuri
Marathi
Nepali
Oriya
Punjabi
Sanskrit
Santhali
Sindhi
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
Hindi is the official and main link language of India. Its homeland is mainly in the north of India, but it is spoken and widely understood in all urban centers of India. It is written in the Devanagri script, which is phonetic and, unlike English, is pronounced as it is written. Hindi is a direct descendant of Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha. It has been influenced and enriched by Dravidian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, Portugese and English. It is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words. It can also be used for exact and rational reasoning.

Hakim S

of coarse they know their local language.In fact some know know a variety of language who often travel to different parts of India.

gokul d

there are 22 languages in india some people learn some languages soon. now on days people can english they know the important of this languages

helpaneed

9 out of 10 Indians know more than one language, one their own and atleast one another language, not necessarily English. And those who know only one language, it is their own language.

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I am from India, I know my mother tongue Malayalam, English and a little Hindi and Spanish.

reigning queen

i would say that most indian ppl know about 3-4 languages. indians living outside of india may know more.

Siddharth Razdan

Every Indian, on an average, know 3 languages. One English, One Hindi, and one their local one.

Hax

They know their own dialects as well, of which there are hundreds. But there are twenty two recognized languages:

http://indiaimage.nic.in/languages.htm

Jiya

there are 22 regional languages in india as per govt. record. But each region contains no. of languages. for ex. i live in gujarat. All people speak gujarati in gujarati. but thaere are also some diff, like charotari, kathiyavadi, Mehsani, surti etc. etc. languages in india is countless

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