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Languages of India

The document lists various languages spoken in India along with the families they belong to and number of speakers. Some of the major languages mentioned are Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Oriya. Hindi has the most number of speakers at around 72 million followed by Bengali at around 83 million speakers.

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Languages of India

The document lists various languages spoken in India along with the families they belong to and number of speakers. Some of the major languages mentioned are Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Oriya. Hindi has the most number of speakers at around 72 million followed by Bengali at around 83 million speakers.

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Language Assamese Bengali Bodo Dogri Gujarati

Family

Speakers
(in millions, 2001)[26]

State(s) Assam, Arunachal Pradesh West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Assam Jammu and Kashmir Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, the National capital territory of Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Karnataka Jammu and Kashmir Goa, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala Bihar Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry Manipur Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu Sikkim, West Bengal Odisha Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab non-regional Santhal tribals of the Chota Nagpur Plateau (comprising the states of Bihar, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha) non-regional Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Puducherry Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Indo-Aryan, 13 Eastern Indo-Aryan, 83 Eastern TibetoBurman 1.4

Indo-Aryan, 2.3 Northwestern Indo-Aryan, 46 Western Indo-Aryan, 258422[27] Central Dravidian 38

Hindi

Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Maithili Malayalam Manipuri (also Meitei or Meithei) Marathi Nepali Oriya Punjabi Sanskrit Santhali Sindhi Tamil Telugu Urdu

Indo-Aryan, 5.5 Dardic Indo-Aryan, 2.57.6[28] Southern Indo-Aryan, 1232[29] Eastern Dravidian TibetoBurman 33 1.5

Indo-Aryan, 72 Southern Indo-Aryan, 2.9 Northern Indo-Aryan, 33 Eastern Indo-Aryan, 29 Northwestern Indo-Aryan Munda 0.01 6.5

Indo-Aryan, 2.5 Northwestern Dravidian Dravidian 61 74

Indo-Aryan, 52 Central

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