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FAMILY-WISE GROUPING OF
THE 122 SCHEDULED AND NON-SCHEDULED LANGUAGES – 2001
| Language families |
Number of Languages |
Persons who returned the languages as their
mother tongue |
Percentage to total population |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
1.
Indo-European
(a) Indo-Aryan |
21 |
790,627,060 |
76.86 |
| (b) Iranian |
2 |
22,774 |
0.00 |
| (c) Germanic |
1 |
226,449 |
0.02 |
| 2. Dravidian |
17 |
214,172,874 |
20.82 |
| 3. Austro-Asiatic |
14 |
11,442,029 |
1.11 |
| 4.
Tibeto-Burmese |
66 |
10,305,026 |
1.00 |
| 5. Semito-Hamitic |
1 |
51,728 |
0.01 |
| Total |
12 |
1,026,847,940* |
99.82* |
* The balance of 1,762,388 (0.17%)
population out of total Indian population 1,028,610,328 comprises
of 1,635,280 speakers of those languages and mother tongues which
were not identifiable or returned by less than 10000 speakers at
all India level and the population ( 127,108 persons) of Manipur
which was not included in language data since the Census results
were cancelled in 3 sub-divisions of Senapati district of
Manipur.in 2001.
The names of the 122 Scheduled and
Non-Scheduled languages falling in the above five language
families are given below with the Scheduled Languages denoted as
(S). Of the 22 Scheduled Languages, 15 fall in the Indo-Aryan
branch of the Indo-European family, 1 in Austro-Asiatic family, 4
in the Dravidian family and 2 in the Tibeto-Burmese family.
1. INDO-EUROPEAN
(a)
INDO-ARYAN
1.
Assamese (S), 2. Bengali(S), 3. Bhili/Bhilodi, 4. Bishnupuriya, 5.
Dogri(S) 6. Gujarati(S), 7. Halabi,
8. Hindi(S), 9. Kashmiri(S), 10. Khandeshi,11. Konkani(S),
12. Lahnda. 13. Maithili(S), 14. Marathi(S), 15.
Nepali(S), 16. Oriya(S), 17. Punjabi(S), 18. Sanskrit(S), 19.
Shina, 20. Sindhi(S), 21. Urdu(S),
(b) IRANIAN
1.
Afghani/Kabuli/Pashto, 2. Persian
(c)
GERMANIC
1.
English.
2. DRAVIDIAN
1.
Coorgi/Kodagu, 2. Gondi, 3. Jatapu, 4. Kannada(S), 5. Khond/Kondh,
6. Kisan, 7. Kolami, 8. Konda,
9.Koya, 10. Kui,
11. Kurukh/Oraon, 12. Malayalam(S), 13. Malto, 14. Parji, 15
Tamil(S), 16. Telugu(S), 17.Tulu.
3. AUSTRO-ASIATIC
1.
Bhumij, 2. Gadaba, 3. Ho, 4. Juang, 5. Kharia, 6. Khasi, 7. Koda/Kora, 8. Korku, 9. Korwa, 10. Munda,
11.Mundari, 12. Nicobarese, 13. Santali(S) 14.Savara.
4. TIBETO-BURMESE
1.
Adi, 2. Anal, 3. Angami, 4. Ao, 5. Balti, 6. Bhotia, 7. Bodo (S),
8. Chakesang, 9. Chakru/Chokri,
10. Chang, 11. Deori, 12. Dimasa, 13. Gangte, 14. Garo,15. Halam,
16. Hmar, 17. Kabui, 18. Karbi/Mikir, 19. Khezha, 20.
Khiemnungan, 21.Kinnauri, 22. Koch, 23. Kom, 24. Konyak, 25. Kuki,
26. Ladakhi, 27. Lahauli, 28. Lakher, 29. Lalung, 30. Lepcha, 31.
Liangmei, 32. Limbu,
33.Lotha, 34. Lushai/Mizo, 35. Manipuri(S), 36. Maram, 37.
Maring, 38. Miri/Mishing, 39. Mishmi, 40. Mogh, 41. Monpa, 42. Nissi/Dafla,
43. Nocte, 44. Paite,
45. Pawi, 46. Phom, 47. Pochury, 48. Rabha, 49. Rai 50.Rengma, 51.
Sangtam, 52. Sema, 53. Sherpa, 54. Simte, 55.
Tamang 56. Tangkhul, 57. Tangsa, 58. Thado, 59. Tibetan, 60.
Tripuri, 61. Vaiphei, 62. Wancho, 63.
Yimchungre, 64. Zeliang, 65. Zemi, 66. Zou.
5. SEMITO-HAMITIC
1. Arabic/Arbi
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