Official names of India

India has 23 official languages. The its constitution lists the name of the country in each of the languages. Hindi and English are the "official languages of the union" (Union meaning the Federal Government located in Delhi); Tamil and Sanskrit are officially the "classical languages of India."

## Hindi and English

|colspan=2|Language|Official short form|Official full form||||
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|rowspan=2|Hindi|Devanagari|style="font-size:150%;background-color:#fd9;"||style="font-size:130%;background-color:#fd9;"||
|Hunterian transliteration|style="font-size:120%;background-color:#fd9;"|_Bhārat_|style="background-color:#fd9;"|_Bhārat Gaṇrājya_|||
|colspan=2|English|style="font-size:120%;background-color:#cef;"|India|style="background-color:#cef;"|Republic of India||

## Eighth Schedule Languages

|colspan=2|Language|colspan=2 style="white-space:nowrap;"|Official short name for India|colspan=2|Official full name for The Republic of India|colspan=2|Details|colspan=2|"Republic (of)"||||||||||
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|Assamese|style="background:#efdfff;"|BengaliAssamese|style="background:#f7efff;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bhārôt|style="background:#f7efff;"||style="background:#f7efff;"|Bhārôt Gônôrāzyô||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#efefff;"||style="background:#efefff;"|Gônôrāzyô||
|Bengali|style="background:#efdfff;"|BengaliAssamese|style="background:#efdfff;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bhārot||style="white-space:nowrap;"|Bhārotiyo Projātôntro||style="font-size:90%;"|||Projātôntro|||||
|Bhojpuri|Kaithi|𑂦𑂰𑂩𑂞|Bhārat|𑂦𑂰𑂩𑂞 𑂏𑂝𑂩𑂰𑂔𑂹𑂨|Bhārat Ganrājya|||𑂏𑂝𑂩𑂰𑂔𑂹𑂨|Ganrājya||||||||||
|Bodo|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bhārôt|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#efdfff;"|Bhārôt Gônôrājyô||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#efdfff;"|Gônôrājyô||
|Dogri|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat Ganrājya||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Ganrājya||
|Gujarati|Gujarati||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat||style="background:#fdd;"|Bhārtiya Gaṇtāntrā|ISO 15919|style="font-size:90%;"|||style="background:#fcc;"|Gaṇtāntrā||||||
|Hindi|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat Ganrājya|Hunterian|style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Ganrājya||
|Kannada|Kannada||style="background:#ffef9f;"|Bhārata||style="background:#ffefcf;"|Bhārata Gaṇarājya|ISO 15919|style="font-size:90%;"|||style="background:#fec;"|Gaṇarājya||||||
|Kashmiri|style="background:#ddffdd;"|PersoArabic in the Nasta'liq style|style="background:#ddffdd;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Hindōstān|style="background:#ddffdd;"|<small></small>|style="background:#ddffdd;"|Jomhūriyā Hindōstān||style="font-size:90%;"|shown on bank notes|style="background:#ddffdd;"||style="background:#ddffdd;"|Jomhūriyā||
|Konkani|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bharot|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat Gaṇrājya||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Gaṇrājya||
|rowspan=2|Maithili|rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"||rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat Gaṇarājya||rowspan=2 style="font-size:80%;"||rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#fec;"|Gaṇarājya|
|style="white-space:nowrap;"||IPA|style="white-space:nowrap;"||||||||||||||||
|Malayalam|Malayalam|ഭാരതം|style="background:#ffff9f;"|Bharatam|style="font-size: 90%;"|ഭാരത മഹാരാജ്യം|style="background:#ffff9f;"|Bhārata mahārājyam|ISO 15919|style="font-size:90%;"|||Mahārājyaṁ||||||
|Marathi|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari in the Balbodh style|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat||style="background:#ffffff;"|Bhārtīya Prajāsattāk||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ffffff;"||style="background:#ffffff;"|Prajāsattāk|||
|rowspan=2|Meitei (Manipuri)|style="background:#efdfff;"|BengaliAssamese|style="background:#efdfff;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bharôt|style="background:#efdfff;"||style="background:#efdfff;"|Bharôt Gôṇôrajyô||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#efdfff;"||style="background:#efdfff;"|Gôṇôrajyô|
|Meitei script|style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Noto Sans Meetei Mayek','Nirmala UI Semilight','Nirmala UI','Noto Sans';"||style="background:#cef;"|Indiyā||||style="font-size:90%;"|||||||||||
|Nepali|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|style="background:#fcc;"||style="background:#fdd;"|Gaṇatantra Bhārat||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#fcc;"||style="background:#fdd;"|Gaṇatantra||
|Odia|Odia||style="background:#ffeff7;"|Bhārata||style="background:#f7efff;"|Bhārata Gaṇarājya||style="font-size:90%;"|||style="background:#efdfff;"|Gaṇarājya||||||
|Punjabi|Gurmukhi||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat||style="background:#ffefcf;"|Bhārat Gaṇrāj||style="font-size:80%;"|Perso-Arabic script is used for Pakistani dialects but has no official status in India.||style="background:#fff7ef;"|Gaṇrāj||||||
|Sanskrit|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffff9f;"||style="background:#ffff9f;"|Bhāratam|style="background:#ffff9f;"||style="background:#ffff9f;"|Bhāratamahārājyam||style="font-size:90%;"|||||||
|rowspan=2|Santali|style="background:#eee;"|Ol Chiki|style="background:#eee;"||style="background:#eee;"|Siñôt|style="background:#eee;white-space:nowrap;"||style="background:#eee;"|Siñôt Renāg Ăpnăt||style="font-size:90%;"|Mahali is a dialect of Santali.|style="background:#eee;"||style="background:#eee;"|Renāg Ăpnăt|
|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdfbf;"||style="background:#ffdfbf;"|Bharot||||style="font-size:90%;"||||||||||
|rowspan=2|Sindhi|style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Devanagari|style="background:#ffdf9f;"||rowspan=2 style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|style="background:#fcc;"|<small></small>|style="background:#fdd;"|Bhārat Gaṇtantra||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#fcc;"||style="background:#fcc;"|Gaṇtāntrā|
|style="background:#eeffcc;"|PersoArabic|style="background:#eeffcc;"||style="background:#eeffcc;"|<small></small>|style="background:#ccffcc;"|Jamhūriyā Bhārat||style="font-size:90%;"||style="white-space:nowrap;background:#eeffcc;"|<small></small>|style="background:#ddffcc;"|Jamhūriyā|||||
|Tamil|Tamil|பாரதம்|style="background-color:#ffff9f;"|_Bhāratham_|style="white-space:nowrap;"||style="background-color:#ffff9f;"|_Bhārathak kudiyarasu_||style="font-size:90%;"|||Kudiyarasu||||||
|Telugu|Telugu||style="background:#ffef9f;"|Bhārata|style="white-space:nowrap;"||style="background:#ffffff;font-size:90%;"|Bhāratha Gaṇathanthra Rājyamu|ISO 15919|style="font-size:90%;"|||Gaṇathanthra Rājyamu||||||
|Urdu|style="background:#ccffcc;font-size:80%;"|PersoArabic in the Nasta'liq style|style="background:#ccffcc;font-size:180%;"||style="background:#ffdf9f;"|Bhārat|style="background:#ccffcc;"|<small></small>|style="background:#ccffcc;"|Jamhūriyā Bhārat||style="font-size:90%;"||style="background:#ccffcc;white-space:nowrap;font-size:100%;"|<sub>(Naskh)</sub> <sub>(Nastaliq)</sub>|style="background:#ccffcc;"|Jamhūriyā||

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