| S. No. |
Language |
Persons who returned the language as their mother tongue |
Percentage to total population ** |
| |
|
|
|
| 1 |
Hindi |
422,048,642 |
41.03 |
| 2 |
Bengali |
83,369,769 |
8.11 |
| 3 |
Telugu |
74,002,856 |
7.19 |
| 4 |
Marathi |
71,936,894 |
6.99 |
| 5 |
Tamil |
60,793,814 |
5.91 |
| 6 |
Urdu |
51,536,111 |
5.01 |
| 7 |
Gujarati |
46,091,617 |
4.48 |
| 8 |
Kannada |
37,924,011 |
3.69 |
| 9 |
Malayalam |
33,066,392 |
3.21 |
| 10 |
Oriya |
33,017,446 |
3.21 |
| 11 |
Punjabi |
29,102,477 |
2.83 |
| 12 |
Assamese |
13,168,484 |
1.28 |
| 13 |
Maithili |
12,179,122 |
1.18 |
| 14 |
Santali |
6,469,600 |
0.63 |
| 15 |
Kashmiri |
5,527,698 |
0.54 |
| 16 |
Nepali |
2,871,749 |
0.28 |
| 17 |
Sindhi |
2,535,485 |
0.25 |
| 18 |
Konkani |
2,489,015 |
0.24 |
| 19 |
Dogri |
2,282,589 |
0.22 |
| 20 |
Manipuri * |
1,466,705 |
0.14 |
| 21 |
Bodo |
1,350,478 |
0.13 |
| 22 |
Sanskrit |
14,135 |
N |
* Excludes figures of Paomata, Mao-Maram and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district of Manipur for 2001 Census.
** The percentage of speakers of each language for 2001 has been worked out on the total population of India
excluding the population of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati district of Manipur due to
cancellation of census results. N - Stands for negligible.
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