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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the government of India, and is the lingua franca for most of the northern half of India.

Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwestern South Asia, deriving from Indo-Aryan languages that diffused from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism and classical Hindu philosophy and religion and the liturgical language of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a lingua franca in ancient and medieval South Asia, and, as Hindu and Buddhist culture spread to Southeast East and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religi
Bangla
Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India
Thai
Tai language
Telugu
Dravidian language native to South India
Punjabi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
Nepali
official language of Nepal
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a second or third language for 15 million speakers in Karnataka. It is the official and administrative language of Karnataka. It also has scheduled status in India and has been included among the country's designated classical languages.
Marathi
Indo-Aryan language
Malayalam
thumb|A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa
Malayalam (, ) is a Dravidian language, primarily spoken by the Malayali people, native to the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district). It is one of 22 scheduled languages, as well as one of 11 classical languages, of India. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé).
Gujarati
Indo-Aryan language that is spoken on the state of Gujarat
Odia
Indo-Aryan language

Pali
Pāli (; IAST: ) is a Middle Indo-Aryan language that is widely studied as the sacred language of Theravada Buddhism and the language of the Tipiṭaka. Pali was designated a classical language of India by the Government of India on 3 October 2024.
Kashmiri
language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages
Sindhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India
Konkani
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Maithili
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Nepal
Meitei
Sino-Tibetan language
Santali
Kherwari language of the Austro-Asiatic family spoken by around 6.2 million people in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal
Bodo
Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal
Dogri
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Pakistan