The Eighth Schedule of the Indian consisits of 22 scheduled langages viz. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Sindhi, Konkani, Manipuri, Nepali, Bodo, Dogri, Maithili, Santal. It originally had 14 languages, others were added by subsequent amendments,