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Punjabi

Punjabi (the Indic language spoken by most people in Punjab in northwestern India)

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Oriya

Oriya or Odia (????? ), the Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

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Nepali

Nepali (नेपाली), the language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes)

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Tamil

Tamil (the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka)

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Urdu

Urdu, the spoken human language

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Telugu

Telugu (the Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu in southeastern India)

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Assamese

Assamese, the spoken human language

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Marathi

Marathi (the Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script)

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Bhojpuri

Bhojpuri, the Indian language

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Bengali

Bengali or Bangla, the Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit and Sanskrit languages

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English

English, the West Germanic language that developed in England and south-eastern Scotland during the Anglo-Saxon era

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Gujarati

Gujarati (ગુજરાતી Gujǎrātī), the Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family

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Kannada

Kannada (the Dravidian language spoken in southern India)

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanāgarī: or, IAST:, ), the name given to an Indo-Aryan language, or a dialect continuum of languages, spoken in northern and central India (the "Hindi belt")

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Malayalam

Malayalam (the Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India)

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Kashmiri

Kashmiri (Koshur), the language from the Dardic sub-group and it is spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley, in Jammu and Kashmir

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List languages (systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) a language that is spoken by a significant part of the population of India also Bharat, conventional long name Republic of India ('; see also official names of India), the state in South Asia

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English has been significantly spoken in India since at least October 23rd 2007

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Urdu has been significantly spoken in India since at least August 24th 2007, 00:00:00

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Bengali has been significantly spoken in India since at least August 24th 2007, 00:00:00

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Hindi has been significantly spoken in India since at least January 25th 2010, 15:37:51

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Kannada has been significantly spoken in India since at least January 6th 2009

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Marathi has been significantly spoken in India since at least September 24th 2008

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Oriya has been significantly spoken in India since at least September 24th 2008

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Punjabi has been significantly spoken in India since at least August 24th 2007, 00:00:00

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Tamil has been significantly spoken in India since at least November 26th 2007

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Telugu has been significantly spoken in India since at least August 1st 2008

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Gujarati has been significantly spoken in India since at least February 14th 2008, 00:00:00

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Malayalam has been significantly spoken in India since at least February 14th 2008, 00:00:00

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Nepali has been significantly spoken in India since at least February 14th 2008, 00:00:00

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Bhojpuri has been significantly spoken in India since at least February 14th 2008, 00:00:00

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Sanskrit has been significantly spoken in India since at least September 24th 2008

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