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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
Punjabi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
Nepali
official language of Nepal
Marathi
Indo-Aryan language
Hindustani
Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia, comprising the two normative forms of Hindi and Urdu
Kashmiri
language from the Dardic subgroup of the Indo-Aryan languages
Sindhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan and India
Maldivian
Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives
Fiji Hindi
language spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent
Konkani
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Maithili
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India and Nepal
Newar
Sino-Tibetan language of central-eastern Nepal
Bhojpuri
Indo-Aryan language native to India and Nepal
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
Awadhi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Northern India
Magahi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Rajasthani
Indo-Aryan dialect cluster of northwest India
Prakrit
Prakrit ( ) is a group of vernacular classical Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE. The term Prakrit is usually applied to the middle period of the Middle Indo-Aryan languages, excluding Pali.
Chhattisgarhi
asụsụ gọọmentị na steeti Chhattisgarh nke India
Marwari
language spoken in Rajasthan, India
Saraiki
Indo-Aryan language spoken in Pakistan
Haryanvi
Western Hindi language closely related to Hindi widely spoken in the North Indian state of Haryana and in Delhi
Gondi
South-Central-Dravidian language spoken by the Gondi people
Angika
Angika (also known as Anga, Angikar or Chhika-Chhiki) is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in some parts of the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, as well as in parts of Nepal.
Bhili
Western Indo-Aryan language spoken in west-central India, in the region east of Ahmedabad
Ho
Munda language of the Austro-Asiatic language family spoken primarily in India
Limbu
Sino-Tibetan language of eastern Nepal and India
Shina
language from the Dardic sub-group of the Indo-Aryan languages family spoken by the Shina people
Sherpa
Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Sherpa community
Mundari
Munda language spoken in eastern India
Kurukh
Dravidian language of eastern India
Garhwali
central Pahari language belonging to the northern zone of Indo-Aryan languages
Kumaoni
Indo-Aryan language
Bundeli
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
Kolava
Kolami (, Northwestern Kolami/Southeastern Kolami) is a tribal Central Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Telangana states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
Khandeshi
language
Doteli
thumb|A woman from the Achham district of Nepal discusses cooking mutton and fish in the Achhami dialect. Doteli, or Dotyali (Doteli-Devanagari: ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 495,000 people, most of whom live in Nepal. It is a dialect of Khas, which is an ancient form of the modern Nepali language, and is written in the Devanagari script. It has official status in Nepal as per Part 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of Nepal 2072 (2015). There are four main dialects of Doteli, namely Baitadeli, Achhami, Bajhangi Nepali, Darchuli and Doteli. The mutual intelligibility between these
Nagpuri
Eastern Indo-Aryan language, also named Sadri, Sadari or Sadani, part of the Bihari languages subfamily, originating from North-Eastern India
Gujari
Gujari (گُجری) also spelt Gurjari, Gojri, Gujri, Gojari, or Gurjar is a Central Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages, spoken by most of the Gurjars in the northern parts of India and Pakistan, as well as in eastern parts of Afghanistan. Gujari is the second most widely spoken language in Azad Kashmir, after Pahari, and third most widely spoken language in Jammu and Kashmir, after Kashmiri and Dogri. It is mostly spoken in the northern Pakistan, including Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Azad Kashmir, and northern Indian states, i
Bagri
Indian language
Apabhraṃśa
Apabhraṃśa (, , Prakrit: ) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in Northern India before the rise of the modern languages. In Indology, it is used as an umbrella term for the dialects forming the transition between the late Middle and the early Modern Indo-Aryan languages, spanning the period between the 6th and 13th centuries CE. However, these dialects are conventionally included in the Middle Indo-Aryan period. wikt:अपभ्रंश#Sanskrit| in Sanskrit literally means "corrupt" or "non-grammatical language", that which deviates from the n
Lambadi
thumb|Two Banjara people|Lambada young men from [[Telangana discussing in Lambadi in 2019]]
Bagheli
language
Kangri
language
Mewari
Indo-Aryan language of India
Kannauji
language
Önge
language
Korku
Autroasiatic (Munda) language of India
Halbi
language
Jarawa
language of India
Nimadi
language from the Nimar region of Madhya Pradesh
Malvi
language
Sauria Paharia
Dravidian language
Dhundari
Rajasthani variety
Car
Austroasiatic language spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India
Gurung
language spoken by the Gurung people, indigenous to Nepal and Sikkim
Tamang
dialect cluster spoken mainly in Nepal ,Bhutan and India.