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| rdfs:comment | - 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:
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| abstract | - 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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