Śubhāśayagaḷu! Kannada, a Dravidian language is the home language of Karnataka and is largely spoken in the south western regions of India. Written Kannada is influenced by the 5th-century Kadamba script.

Nômoshkar! Bengali popularly known by its endonym Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the official de facto national language of Bangladesh. Fun fact states that it has 228 million native speakers in total!

Namaskkāraṁ! Malayalam, local language of the Indian state of Kerala and the Union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry is spoken by 2.88% Indians. The mysterious origins of Malayalam remain a point of argument among scholars.

Sat Sri Akaal! The native language of an ethnolinguistic group of Punjab, Northwest India, is Punjabi. This rich language is also spoken largely in Pakistan. Interestingly it is the third-most spoken language in the UK!

Vandanalu! The Dravidian language of Telugu is spoken by the locals of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Yanam district of Puducherry. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India.

Vanakkam! Tamil is spoken by the people of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.

Did you know? This was the first classical language of India and is one of the longest-surviving classical languages in the world!

Kem cho? This peppy language of Gujarati is predominantly spoken by the people of Gujarat. Its origins date more than 700 years back in history and is widely spoken by 55 million people in the world.

नमस्कार! Marathi is the proud local language of Maharashtra and co-officially spoken in Goa. The language flaunts ancient literature of all modern Indian languages, dating from around 600 AD.

Namaste! The notable national language of India, Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language. This language is written in the Devanagari script and ranks the fourth most-spoken first language in the world.

Namo Namaha! ‘Language Of The Gods’, Sanskrit, an ancient language emerges as a language of high culture and of local ruling elites in the Asian regions. Sanskrit has significantly influenced the phonology, lexicology, morphology of South Indian languages.