Indian English

Indian English
Indian English
Region	India
Native speakers	250,000 (2022)[1][2][3]; L2 speakers: 200 million; L3 speakers: 46 million; 246 million total speakers (2022)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Indian English; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old English Middle English Early Modern English ; ;
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet); Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in	India
Language codes
ISO 639-1	en
ISO 639-2	eng
ISO 639-3	eng
Glottolog	indi1255
IETF	en-IN
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Indian English (IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora.[4] English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Hindi, as enshrined in the Constitution of India.[5] English is also an official language in seven states and seven union territories of India, and the additional official language in seven other states and one union territory. Furthermore, English is the sole official language of the Indian Judiciary, unless the state governor or legislature mandates the use of a regional language, or if the President of India has given approval for the use of regional languages in courts.[6]