Most Spoken Languages in India: Which languages are spoken by most people in India?
What is the number of your mother tongue in the list?
Hindi:
Most people in India speak Hindi....
more... In all, Hindi is the mother tongue of about 52.63 crore people.
Bengali:
Bengali is at number 2 in the list. It is the mother tongue of 9.62 crore people. Moreover, the national anthem of the country is also written in Bengali.
Marathi:
This is the third language. About 8.30 crore people speak this language.
Telugu:
This Dravidian language is one of the oldest languages in the country. About 8.11 crore people spoke in it.
Tamil:
Another ancient language. Lots of people in South India speak this language. It is the mother tongue of about 7.90 crore people.
Gujarati:
It is the official language of the state of Gujarat. This is the Indo-Aryan language. About 5.54 crore people in this part of the country, including this state, speak this language.
Urdu:
It is the seventh most spoken language. About 5.06 crore people in India speak this language.
Kannada:
Not only in India, it is one of the oldest languages in the world. About 4.37 crore people in India speak this language.
Oriya:
Apart from Orissa, about 3.75 crore people speak this language in other states.
Malayalam:
Lots of people in South India speak this language. It is the tenth largest language in terms of numbers. About 3.46 crore people speak this language.
English:
This language is spoken by a large number of people in states like Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh. Due to being one of the international languages, a lot of people in India know this language. It is also the primary language spoken by over two and a half million people.
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