India is a country located on the Peninsula of Hindustan and inhabited by numerous peoples, nationalities and tribes that belong to different ethnic groups, speak different languages and stand at different levels of cultural and social development.
The main languages of India, spoken by an overwhelming majority (87.13%) of the population, are Assami, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannara, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Orya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamili, Telugu, Urdu and Hindi. Hindi is declared the official language of the country.
