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How many languages are the amounts on Indian banknotes written in?

Writer Robert Bradley

Languages. As like the other Indian rupee banknotes, the ₹100 banknote has its amount written in 17 languages. On the obverse, the denomination is written in English and Hindi. On the reverse is a language panel which displays the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India.

What are the languages written on 10 rupee note?

Languages included on the panel are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

What are the 15 languages in Indian currency?

The language panel on Indian rupee banknotes display the denomination of the note in 15 of the 22 official languages of India . They are from top to bottom – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

How many languages are spoken in India in total?

Press Trust of India More than 19,500 languages or dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues, according to the latest analysis of a census released this week. There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore, it said.

How many languages are there in Indian banknotes?

As explained in our article The National and Official Languages of India: Hindi, English, Banknotes India banknote has the amount written in 17 languages. On the obverse or front, the denomination is written in English and Hindi.

Why are there 17 languages on Indian rupee note?

This is because these languages have their own alphabets and writings. While other schedule language don’t have their own alphabets or they are written in one among these languages’ letters. Source – wikipedia.

Which is the official national language of India?

There is no national language as declared by the Constitution of India. The Constitution of India designates the official language of the Government of India as Hindi and English. Hindi is used for official purposes such as parliamentary proceedings, judiciary, communications between the Central Government and a State Government.