Class of varieties of the English language spoken in India
Not to be confused with Hinglish, Benglish, Tanglish, Kanglish, Tenglish, Urdish and Nenglish, macaronic languages mixing English with Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Urdu and Nepali, respectively.
For pre-1947 Indian English, see South Asian English.
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Indian English
Region
India
Native speakers
250,000[1][2][3] L2 speakers: 83 million L3 speakers: 46 million 128 million total speakers (2011)
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Ingvaeonic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
English
British English
Indian English
Early forms
Old English
Middle English
Early Modern English
Writing system
Latin (English alphabet) Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in
India
Language codes
ISO 639-1
en
ISO 639-2
eng
ISO 639-3
eng
Glottolog
indi1255
IETF
en-IN
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Speech example
An example of a female speaker from the North Indian state of Uttarakhand (Vandana Shiva).
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Speech example
An example of a female speaker from the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya (Arundhati Roy).
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Speech example
An example of a female news presenter from the South Indian state of Karnataka.
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Indian English (IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora.[4] English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Modern Standard Hindi, as enshrined in the Constitution of India.[5] English is also an official language in seven states and seven union territories of India, and the additional official language in seven other states and one union territory. Furthermore, English is the sole official language of the Indian Judiciary, unless the state governor or legislature mandates the use of a regional language, or if the President of India has given approval for the use of regional languages in courts.[6]
Before the dissolution of the British Empire on the Indian subcontinent, Indian English referred broadly to South Asian English, also called British Indian English.
^"LANGUAGE - INDIA,STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES (Table C-16)". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
^"POPULATION BY BILINGUALISM AND TRILINGUALISM (Table C-17)". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
^"India - Languages". Ethnologue. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
^"Case Studies - Asian English". British Library. University of Leeds. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
^The Constitution of India(PDF). Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India. 1 December 2007. pp. 212–267. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
^"Court language is English, says Supreme Court". The Economic Times. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
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