Languages of India and their origination

Languages of India and their origination

Languages spoken in India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians. Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the population belong to the Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, and a few other minor language families and isolates. India has the world's second highest number of languages, after Papua New Guinea .Article 343 of the Indian constitution stated that the official language of the Union should become Hindi in Devanagari . Later, a constitutional amendment, The Official Languages Act, 1963, allowed for the continuation of English in the Indian government.The Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution lists 22 languages. In addition, the Government of India has awarded the distinction of classical language to Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu. Classical language status is given to languages which have a rich heritage and independent nature.According to the Census of India of 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages.Indian languages are divided into two category. All the north Indian languages are derived from Sanskrit and Prakrit which are again derived from Indo European language.
All the south Indian languages are derived from proto Dravidian . Proto Dravidian origin languages are spoken in some pockets of North India, Pakistan and Afghanistan also.We don’t know the origin as the pre-Harappan language hasn't been deciphered yet.The first organised language is Sanskrit. Here the Terminals will object, the stress here is organised, systematised grammar. a very basic details are given below .

1. Sanskrit (2500 BCE or even before)
2. Prakrit (1200 BCE - Descended from Sanskrit)
3. Pali (900 BCE - Descended from Sanskrit and Prakrit)
4. Telugu (700 BCE - Descended from Prakrit and Proto-Dravidian)
5. Kannada (500 BCE - Descended from Proto-Dravidian, Sanskrit and Prakrit)
6. Tamil (300 BCE - Descended from Proto-Dravidian directly)
7. Malayalam (100 BCE - Descended from Sanskrit and Proto-Dravidian)
8. Odia (200 CE/AD - Descended from Pali, Prakrit, Persian and Arabic)
9. Marathi (500 CE/AD - Descended from Maharastri Prakrit)
10. Hindustani (Hindi & Urdu: 600 CE/AD - Descended from Prakrit, Sanskrit, Persian and Arabic)