India Travel GuideIndia FactsTravel GuideVisas and Immigration | Entry | Customs | Currency | Climate | Dress | Health | MapsBackground InformationIndia History | India Culture | Independence | The Economy and BusinessLanguageEnglish is the lingua franca between Indians of different regions.Staff at airline, railway and telecommunication counters and offices are usually fluent in English. Most direction signs usually have an English version too. Books like Words in Indian English by S. Muthiah can help visitors interpret local additions to vocabulary and grammar.
Hindi, the official and most widely spoken language, is concentrated in the northern states. Dravidian languages such as Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada prevail in the south. |