National language

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A national language is a language (or language variant, i.e. dialect) which has some connection - de facto or de jure - with a people and perhaps by extension the territory they occupy. The term is used variously. A national language may for instance represent the national identity of a nation or country. National language may alternatively be a designation given to one or more languages spoken as first languages in the territory of a country.

C.M.B. Brann, with particular reference to Africa, suggests that there are "four quite distinctive meanings" for national language in a polity:^[1]

• "Territorial language" (chthonolect, sometimes known as chtonolect^[2]) of a particular people
• "Regional language (choralect)
• "Language-in-common or community language" (demolect) used throughout a country
• "Central language" (politolect) used by government and perhaps having a symbolic value.

The latter seems often to be given the title "official language."

Indian National Language is Hindi..

Indian National Language is Hindi .never,....... Proved by The great father of India and Smartest man