Indian Languages Difficulty Ranking

Indian Languages Difficulty Ranking-

The National Service Institute has created a list to show the approximate time you need to learn a specific language as an Hindi speaker After this particular study time you will reach “Speaking 3: General Professional Proficiency in Speaking (S3)” and “Reading 3: General Professional Proficiency in Reading (R3)”

Please keep in mind that this ranking only shows the view of the National Service Institute and some language students or experts may disagree with the ranking.

If there is a language in this list you would like to learn and it is in a high difficult category, don’t let this stop you from learning it. Even if they are ranked as difficult, it does not mean that they are impossible to learn and maybe it is not hard for you at all.

Category I: 23-24 weeks (575-60 hours) Languages closely related to Hindi
Urdu Punjabi Bengali Gujrati Marathi Oriya	Assamese Nepali

Category II: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from Hindi
Telugu kannada Tamil Malyalam	Tibetan Manipuri Bodo Tulu