How many langagues in India ?
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Common langague is Hindi and English.\n\nRecognized national languages of India\nA further 22 languages are scheduled for official use:\n\nAssamese — official language of Assam \nBengali — official language of Tripura and West Bengal \nBodo — official language of Assam \nDogri — official language of Jammu and Kashmir \nGujarati — official language of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Gujarat \nHindi — official language of Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal \nKannada — official language of Karnataka \nKashmiri — official language of Jammu and Kashmir \nKonkani — official language of Goa \nMaithili — official language of Bihar \nMalayalam — official language of Kerala and Lakshadweep \nManipuri or Meithei — official language of Manipur \nMarathi — official language of Maharashtra \nNepali — official language of Sikkim \nOriya — official language of Orissa \nPunjabi — official language of Punjab, second official language of Delhi and Haryana \nSanskrit — language of Hinduism, required teaching in many schools \nSantali \nSindhi \nTamil — official language of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry \nTelugu — official language of Andhra Pradesh \nUrdu — official language of Jammu and Kashmir, some districts in Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh \n\nOther popular languages of India\nThese languages have over 5 million speakers but no official status. Many are often considered sub-varieties of Hindi.\n\n\nClosely-related to Hindi\nAwadhi \nBundeli \nChhattisgarhi — language of Chhattisgarh \nHariyanavi (Haryanvi) — language of Haryana \nHindustani — a mixture of Hindi and Urdu, spoken largely in the Northern part of India. \nKanauji — language of Uttar Pradesh \nMarwari — language of Rajasthan
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The following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):\n\nMandarin Chinese (836 million) \nHindi (333 million) \nSpanish (332 million) \nEnglish (322 million) \nBengali (189 million)
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Hindi is the officialy official lang.\nEnglish is for Education and Bussiness purposes (750 million active speakers)\nMany Other regional languages (almost one for every state)
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bcoz english is the universal language...most people know it and learn to speak however.... Let's  give a petition to our Indian gov...requiring hindi to be a universal language !!!!!!!!!
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Most Commonly Spoken Languages \nRank Language Number of Speakers \n1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 + \n2 English 508,000,000 \n3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000 \n4 Spanish 392,000,000 \n5 Russian 277,000,000 \n6 Arabic 246,000,000 \n7 Bengali 211,000,000 \n8 Portuguese 191,000,000 \n9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000 \n10 French 129,000,000
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A computer engineering graduate from Samrat Ashok Technological Institute (SATI) in Vidisha, claims that he has come up with the world's first Hindi browser with Internet Explorer. After obtaining his degree, Mr. Dangi did not go job-hunting. Instead, he spent more than three years developing the Hindi software. He completed his school level education in the Hindi medium and found it very difficult to keep pace with the computer engineering syllabus as the medium of instruction was English at the college level. This eventually propelled him into developing the Hindi software. \n\nThe Hindi software package has a set of four different softwares. These include the Explorer/Web browser, English to Hindi or vice-versa digital dictionary, the global word translator and saral Editor. The web browser (Hindi Explorer) is packed with all the functions of Internet Explorer. In addition, it also has extra functions such as opening multiple files, saving files, searching files and has slides, auto history viewers, pop-up blockers, and built-in digital dictionary. The global word translator that comes with his software is an important translator since it can work within any application of Windows (online or offline). The browser can run on all Windows operating systems right from 95, 98, 2000 to ME, NT and Windows XP. \n\nThe other important application software developed by Mr. Dangi is English to Hindi or vice-versa digital dictionary, which currently supports 20,320 words and allows users to add more words to suit their requirements. This dictionary enables users to search for synonyms either in English or Hindi within seconds.
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This is not true.  In the 19th century, some linguists proposed this as a possibility, but it has since been disproven.\n\nInitially, linguists thought that all world languages fell into four groups: Indo-European, Australo-Asiatic, Afro-Asiatic, and Sino-Tibetan.\n\nPeople had not yet really looked into Native American languages.  When it became clear that there were many languages worldwide that did not fit into the basic scheme of 4, linguists had to rethink everything.\n\nToday, it has become clear that there are hundreds of language families, and the basic four groups have been placed into a larger scheme containing dozens and dozens of "language families."  None of the language families are related to any other language families, so if you think about it, the great differences and high levels of complexity get really mind-boggling.\n\n(Just a note: the previous answers are way off - Latin, Greek and Sanskrit are all are part of the same family: Indo-European.)\n\nWikipedia has a decent website outlining the language families -- if you're interested, you might want to check it out.\n\nHere's an excerpt:\n\nThe largest language families in terms of number of languages are:\n\nNiger-Congo (1514 languages) \nAustronesian (1268 languages) \nTrans-New Guinea (564 languages) (validity disputed) \nIndo-European (449 languages) \nSino-Tibetan (403 languages) \nAfro-Asiatic (375 languages) \nNilo-Saharan (204 languages) \nPama-Nyungan (178 languages) \nOto-Manguean (174 languages) (number disputed; Lyle Campbell includes only 27) \nAustro-Asiatic (169 languages) \nSepik-Ramu (100 languages) (validity disputed) \nTai-Kadai (76 languages) \nTupi (76 languages) \nDravidian (73 languages) \nMayan (69 languages)
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There are so many indian language software developers in this country.\n\nif u buy that software, u can directly type in hindi or for that matter any indian language in any windows based application like ms-word,pagemaker,ms-excel etc just to name a few.\n\nthe softwares are\n\nAKRUTI          FROM CYBERSCAPE MULTIMEDIA LIMITED\nSHRILIPI\nPRAKASHAK FROM SONATA\n\nAND MANY OTHERS.  \n\nU CAN SEARCH THE WEB FOR INDIAN LANGUAGE SOFTWARE OR AKRUTI/SHRILIPI ETC AND U CAN BUY ONE.\n\nTHERE MAY BE ALSO FREE DOWNLOADS.GOOGLE IT.\n\nTHERE ARE SOME COMPANIES LIKE CYBERSCAPE MULTIMEDIA (AKRUTI) HAVE DEVELOPED A PACKAGE WHICH WILL CONVERT YOUR ENGLISH PARAGRAPH INTO HINDI.  \n\nPLS CONTACT THEM.  THE PHONE NO. IS 26714446 IN BANGALORE.  THEY HAVE HEAD OFFICE IN MUMBAI ALSO.\n\nGIVE MY REFERENCE LAKSHMINARAYANA R\n\nTHANKS AND REGARDS
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English, Hindi, Telugu , Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, \n\nJava, C,C++,SQL, Perl, XML, HTML, Assembly, Matlab, VHDL, Verilog\n\nSign Language and Gibberish
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According to Ethnologue, there are 6,912 known living languages in the world.
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Well the UN officially recognises exactly 200 countries. However there are several which claim independance, but are not recognised, ir Chechnya, Kashmir, Western Sahara etc Also there are more countries which exist as parts of Unions or Federations, and so are only counted once, ie England, Scotland, Wales & N.Ireland are all counted as the UK. \nAs for language's. There are over 7000 according to the Ethnologue, although UN statistics suggest the number is closer to 3,500 that are in common use, although with globalisation there is apparently a language extinction every 20 days or so at present! Although is seems a large number the vast majority or people upon the Earth speak one of the top 50 most common. The top 10 are:\n1 Chinese (Mandarin) 1,000,000,000 + \n2 English 508,000,000 \n3 Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) 497,000,000 \n4 Spanish 392,000,000 \n5 Russian 277,000,000 \n6 Arabic 246,000,000 \n7 Bengali 211,000,000 \n8 Portuguese 191,000,000 \n9 Malay-Indonesian 159,000,000 \n10 French 129,000,000
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Ethnologue lists about 7,300 main languages in its language name index and distinguishes about 39,491 alternate language names and dialects.
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Population of India 1,080,264,388 (as of July 2005 est.)
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Three Language Formula:\n\nNational Language=Hindi\nMother tongue\nUniversal Language=English
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You can't..\nLearing Indian languages is not a piece of cake.
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1.   Hindi: 337 million \n2.   Bengali: 70 million \n3.   Telugu: 66 million (Dravidian) \nMarathi: 63 million \nTamil: 53 million (Dravidian) \nUrdu: 43 million \nGujarati: 41 million \nKannada: 33 million (Dravidian) \nMalayalam: 30 million (Dravidian) \nOriya: 28 million
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India has a diverse list of spoken languages among different groups of people. At least 30 different languages and around 2000 dialects have been identified. The Constitution of India has stipulated the usage of Hindi and English to be the two official languages of communication for the national government. Additionally, it contains a list of 22 scheduled languages. 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.