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title: "How many languages were originally recognised by the Constitution as regional languages"  
description: "How many languages were originally recognised by the Constitution as regional languages"  
author: "Darshit Khatri"  
published: 2017-12-27  
updated: 2023-09-22  
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# How many languages were originally recognised by the Constitution as regional languages

How many [languages](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2191/the-ai-that-meta-promotes-can-translate-spoken-only-languages) were originally recognised by the Constitution as [regional languages](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81529/upsc-results-2019-regional-languages-goes-missing)

## Answers

### Answer by Kshitij Agrawal

There are **22 languages** were originally recognized by the[**Constitution**](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/tags/indian-constitution) [as regional](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/47714/whose-formation-took-place-on-14-april-1951-as-regional-railway-in-indian-railway) languages. There 14 languages in the Constitution but later on 8 more languages were add to the list, First here I am providing the 14 names of languages and later the 8 names:-

## This is the 14 names

1. **Assamese**
2. **Bengali**
3. **Gujarati**
4. **Hindi**
5. **Kannada**
6. **Kashmiri**
7. **Malayalam**
8. **Marathi**
9. **Oriya**
10. **Punjabi**
11. **Sanskrit**
12. **Sindhi**
13. **Tamil**
14. **Telugu**

**These are 8 languages later add on the list.**.

1. **Bodo**
2. **Santhali**
3. **Maithili**
4. **Urdu**
5. **Konkani**
6. **Nepali**
7. **Manipuri (Meitei)**
8. **Dogri**


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