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[[Haryanavi]] has traditionally been the dominant mother tongue in Haryana, with Standard [[Hindi]] being spoken as a second language. Haryanvi has no official status, as it is seen as a dialect of Hindi & Punjabi. Therefore, Hindi is the official language and in 1969, [[Tamil language|Tamil]] was opted as the second official language of the state. Even as there is practically no presence of Tamilians in the state, Haryana had declared [[Tamil language|Tamil]] as its second language when [[Bansi Lal]] was the chief minister. Since it was the Punjabi suba agitation that had led to formation of Haryana, Bansi Lal thought, ‘Let any language other than [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] be the second language of the state’. Hence, [[Tamil language|Tamil]] became the second state language even though there might not have been even a single Tamil native family in the state at that point of time.<ref name="dnaindia.com">http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-punjabi-edges-out-tamil-in-haryana-1356124</ref> Since 1947, [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] has also been spoken by a lot of people in Haryana especially by those [[Hindu]]s and [[Sikh]]s who came over from the older Punjab region at the time of partition and there was pressure on the government to make it an official language too. As such, Punjabi edged out Tamil as the second official language of the state in 2010.<ref name="dnaindia.com"/> Haryana is the second-largest Punjabi-speaking state after Punjab.