Hindi and English is recognized as the country’s official languages. The education system of India includes the study of three languages in school; English, Hindi and the state language. This is to build multilingualism, while promoting two official languages.
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There are four linguistic families in India, namely Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austric and Sino-Tibetan Aryan. Languages like Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and Marathi belongs to the Indo-Aryan group. Dravidian, however, flourished in Southern Peninsula and has 23 languages under this family, mainly Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Tamil is known to be the oldest among these languages and is the richest in terms of vocabulary. The Primitive tribes of Central and North Eastern India speaks Austric languages. Sino-Tibetan languages are used by the tribes residing in North Bengal and Assam.
Altogether, Indian constituition has recognized 18 languages:
· Assamese
· Bengali
· Gujarati
· Hindi
· Kannada
· Kashmiri
· Konkani
· Malayalam
· Marathi
· Manipuri
· Nepali
· Oriya
· Punjabi
· Sankrit
· Sindhi
· Tamil
· Telugu
· Urdu
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The education system in India comprises of pre-school, primary school, secondary school, higher secondary school and higher education (graduation and post graduation). The primary school students have eight years of education, while secondary and upper secondary education has two years.
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Some prominent institutes of India that can compete with the best in the world are the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), National Law Schools and Jawaharlal Nehru University.
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