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Statement - 4 Scheduled Languages in Descending Order of Speakers' Strength - 2011

This document lists the scheduled languages in India according to the number of speakers in descending order based on the 2011 census. [1] Hindi has the most number of speakers at over 52 million people, making up 43.63% of the population. [2] Bengali and Marathi are the second and third most spoken languages. [3] Many major South Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam are also among the top 10 most spoken languages in India.

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Statement - 4 Scheduled Languages in Descending Order of Speakers' Strength - 2011

This document lists the scheduled languages in India according to the number of speakers in descending order based on the 2011 census. [1] Hindi has the most number of speakers at over 52 million people, making up 43.63% of the population. [2] Bengali and Marathi are the second and third most spoken languages. [3] Many major South Indian languages like Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam are also among the top 10 most spoken languages in India.

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STATEMENT - 4

SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH - 2011

Persons who returned the Percentage to total


S. No. Language
language as their mother tongue population
1 2 3 4

1 Hindi 52,83,47,193 43.63


2 Bengali 9,72,37,669 8.03
3 Marathi 8,30,26,680 6.86
4 Telugu 8,11,27,740 6.70
5 Tamil 6,90,26,881 5.70
6 Gujarati 5,54,92,554 4.58
7 Urdu 5,07,72,631 4.19
8 Kannada 4,37,06,512 3.61
9 Odia 3,75,21,324 3.10
10 Malayalam 3,48,38,819 2.88
11 Punjabi 3,31,24,726 2.74
12 Assamese 1,53,11,351 1.26
13 Maithili 1,35,83,464 1.12
14 Santali 73,68,192 0.61
15 Kashmiri 67,97,587 0.56
16 Nepali 29,26,168 0.24
17 Sindhi 27,72,264 0.23
18 Dogri 25,96,767 0.21
19 Konkani 22,56,502 0.19
20 Manipuri 17,61,079 0.15
21 Bodo 14,82,929 0.12
22 Sanskrit 24,821 N

N - Stands for negligible.

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