Languages of the World 1. The total number of languages in the world as recorded by Ethnologue, the journal that chronicles the languages of the world ----6909... 2. The languages having the highest number of speakers in the world----Chinese (Mandarin) 3. The languages having the second highest number of speakers in the world----Spanish 4. The languages having the third, fourth and fifth highest number of speakers in the world----English, Arabic and Hindi respectively 5. The official language of Pakistan----Urdu 6. The language having the largest number of native speakers in Pakistan---Punjabi 7. The official language of Bhutan---Dzongkha 8. The official language of Israel---Hebrew 9. The official languages of Switzerland----German, (63.7%), French (20.4%), Italian (6.5%) and Romansch (0.5%) Institutions for promotion of Languages 1. Central Institute of Indian Languages---Mysore, Karnataka 2. Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya---Wardha, Maharashtra 3. English and Foreign Languages University----Hyderabad, A.P. 4. Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan----New Delhi 5. Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth----New Delhi 6. Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth-----Tirupathi 7. Maulana Azad National Urdu University----Hyderabad 8. Central Institute of Classical Tamil----Chennai Languages in India 1. The number of languages recognised by the Indian Constitution is---22 2. At the inception of Indian constitution in 1950, the number of recognised languages was---14 3. The languages which were added to the Eighth Schedule are Sindhi, Konkani, Nepali, Manipuri, Maithili, Dogri, Bodo and Santhali. 4. Number of identifiable mother tongues as per Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation report of 2011 234 5. The first language to be conferred the status of a Classical Language Tamil 6. Other languages which have been conferred the status of a Classical Language---Sanskrit, Kannada and Telugu 7. The official language of Nagaland is---English 8. The official language of Jammu and Kashmir ---Urdu 9. The official language of Goa---Konkani 10. The official language of the Supreme Court and High Court as prescribed by the Constitution of India is---English 11. The principal languages of Lakshdweep are Jeseri (Dweep Bhasha) and Mahal 12. Foreign language commonly spoken in Puducherry (formerly Pondicherry) is---French 13. The Indian language known as the Italian of the East is--- Telugu 14. The principal languages of the Andaman & Nicobar islands are---Hindi, Nicobarese, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. 15. English is not in the list of recognised languages
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