I heard that India has more than 15 linguages!Why English is the oficial linguage?Do you know speak other linguage?
2006-10-30 16:07:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
In India English is taught from School level.For Higher Education including Professional , management , Science and other courses the medium is English. Official and Business matters are mostly dealt in English.
This is one of the reason for Indians go places across the world for Business , in this era of globalisation.
When Britishers ruled India years ago , the Engish language has well spread across India.
Actually many words of Indian language have found a place in English language.(Oxford has listing of such words)
No Wonder we indians speak English also apart from Indian languages.
2006-11-01 22:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The latest survey says that more than 150 languages are spoken in India, but there are only 15 major languages.Though Hindi is the national language of India, people speak English because of the British influence in India 57years ago. It is also because all people in India cannot speak all these languages, so they use the universal language, English.
2006-10-30 19:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A british legacy. This one language helps this massive nation 3000 km long and wide to communicate. There are 14 recognised languages in India and then uncountable no. of unrecognised ones. Obviously 800 million people can not speak the same language. It was more tough for the British to learn so many languages. So British wanted all of the Indians to speak English. And the legacy continued.
2006-10-30 16:36:28 · answer #3 · answered by rups 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India has over hundred launguages including dialects, launguages which do not have any script of which 15 are major ones. English is spoken only by the literate and is genearlly a common medium for communication. Though Hindi is the officail language , there are areas where Hindi is not prevalent. India owes its to the British, the influence of English.
2006-10-30 16:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by SGraja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello i am Dutch ,they speak English in India because the English were there in Power for a long time and left many customs ,behind as well as education ,and a lot of people spoke English if they worked in the government ,
I guess once it was there it was hard to go with out it
but it has never been the only language for any one ,just a seccond language
2006-10-30 16:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, we Indians have more than not 15 , 50 languages & English is not official language.
Our national language is Hindi
but the British ruled over India for 200 yrs.
and so English becomes link b/w two country.
and then it becomes status as u don't know English??!!
anyway,
i don't mind,to speak in English or anyother languages as i m not insulting my mothertongue or national language like i don't know how to write or speak 'Hindi' .
it's common we people min. know 3 languages.
Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, English, Sanskrit,
there are others I can understand , not speak.
without knowing English i cannot talk with u & u misspell the term 'language' - 'linguage'.
English is international lang. and so many researches, experiments everything we have in English max. so one should learn English,
to increase knowledge.
2006-10-30 18:14:21 · answer #6 · answered by Pinki 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Average Indian speak 3-4 Languages. Well, it was the british colony so the leagacy is continue. We have HINDI as an oficial language, but unofficialy English has taken over to Hindi. So everything from Corporate to enducation to government is English. This is Largest English Seaking commonwealth country outside UK.
2006-10-30 16:48:42 · answer #7 · answered by Zakir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
India is a vast country with different culture people & many languages. Though Hindi is the national language of India, many parts of the country does not follow & familier with the same. English is widely spoken & understood language in India because once it was a Britisher colony. Also legal translation in English is seems to be easier than other languages.
But we Indians still love our mother tounge & we are proud to have so many classical languages.
2006-10-30 16:14:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We also speak English. in India
Though Hindi is the main language(spoken by about 40%) there are more than a dozen other main languages spoken in different parts of India.
My mother tongue is Tamil.I have only little knowledge of the three languages spoken around Tamilnadu i.e Malayalam,Telugu,Kannada.
English is one of the official language adopted throughout India and serves as the link language .between different states.It is also the key to the rest of the world
Thanks to the English I am able to communicate with a Brazilian.I may not have heard of Pele,amazing Amazon..etc..
Thank you.
2006-10-30 16:29:02 · answer #9 · answered by balaGraju 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The official national language of India is known as HINDI.
Apart from that India has many many languages of which 15 major ones have been taken as additional national languages.
English traders as 'EAST INDIA COMPANY" came to India around the year 1600 during the reign of Maughal emperor shah jehan (the one who built Taj mahal) The company obtained trading concessions and some land along the various coastal towns to Bring in and send their merchandise.
Later they obtained permission to build forts to protect themselves and recruit soldiers also. Slowly they got into politics in the south, east and western India. After the fall of Murals there was chaos in India .The company took full advantage of the chaos and captured many kingdoms to become rulers of India.
In order to rule they wanted English educated people for which they established many English schools. Since the English educated got lucrative jobs in the government all people started sending their children to English schools.
Gradually the English became official language for all government purposes. Lawyers, doctors, professors, engineers, and other technical persons were English educated.
It was subsequently a convenient weapon to unite India to fight the British and ultimately force them to leave India.
But the country had only English as link language for communication with out side world. So it continues even today.
2006-10-30 20:10:16 · answer #10 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋