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The Hindi tradition has interactions with Islam and gave rise to Urdu and Arabic languages. Also in the southern part of the country Tamil got divided into Telagu and Kannada mainly and regenareted Malayalam as the combination of Telagu and Kannada.
In start all the languages of India are considered as they are originated from Sanskrit, but some time after Dravidic family is the origin of Tamil language. Hindi was selected as the mother tongue by 20.85 crores peoples in India in 1971 and by 26.45 crores in 1981 and so finalised as the national language.
In India there are 29 states and 6 union territories having 18 official and 114 total languages, 216 different mother tongues. But Hindi is national language and English is used for national, political and educational purposes as well.
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States and the Official Languages
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