The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 70% of the population) and Dravidian (spoken by about 22%).
Two contact languages have played an important role in the history of India: Persian and English.
Other languages spoken in India come mainly from the Dardic language family, the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates.
The Indo-European and Dravidian languages of India (which formed the basis of European language), include:
- Assamese language
- Bengali language
- Gujarati language
- Hindi language
- Kannada language
- Kashmiri language
- Malayalam language
- Marathi language
- Marwadi language
- Oriya language
- Punjabi language
- Sanskrit - the most ancient and classical of languages
- Sindhi language
- Tamil language
- Telugu language
- Urdu language
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