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Eternal India
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EXPRESSIONS OF INDIA
total
pop.
Languages
Total No.
(in
World Rank
Rank Languages
Predo minant
MANDARIN
ENGLISH
HINDI
SPANISH
RUSSIAN
ARABIC
BENGALI
PORTUGUESE
MALAY-INDONESIAN
JAPANESE
FRENCH
GERMAN
URDU
PUNJABI
KOREAN
TELUGU
TAMIL
MARATHI
CANTONESE
WU
ITALIAN
VIETNAMESE
JAVANESE
INDONESIAN
TURKISH
MIN
THAI
UKRANIAN
SWAHILI
POLISH
KANNADA
GUJARATI
MALAYALAM
ORIYA
ASSAMESE
SINDHI
NEPALI
KASHMIRI
KONKANI
*BHILI
*GONDI
*KURUKH/ORAON
*DOGRI
907
456
383
362
293
208
189
177
148
126
123
119
96
89
73
71
67
67
65
64
63
61
61
61
57
50
49
46
46
44
43
39
35
31
23
17
14
4
4
3
2
2
1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
17
18
19
20
21
21
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
30
33
36
41
43
53
53
54
55
55
56
Hindi
Telugu
Bengali
Marathi
Tamil
Urdu
Gujarati
Kannada
Malayalam
Oriya
Punjabi
39.9
8.2
7.8
7.5
6.8
5.3
5.0
4.1
3:9
2.8
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana,
Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Chandigarh, A & N Is.,
Jammu & Kashmir.
Andhra Pradesh, Andaman & Nicobar Is., Tamil Nadu,
Karnataka,
Pondicherry,
Orissa,
Maharashtra,
Madhya Pradesh, Delhi.
West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Is., Assam,
Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland,
Bihar.
Maharashtra, Goa, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Karnataka,
Madhya Pradesh, Daman & Diu, Gujarat.
Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Andaman & Nicobar Is.,
Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh.
Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Delhi, Goa, West Bengal, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan.
Daman & Diu, Gujarat, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Goa,
Maharashtra
Karnataka, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra
Pradesh.
Kerala, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar Is., Pondi-
cherry, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.
Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar
Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Chandi-
garh.
Percentage figures based on 1981 census. 1991 Census figures to be released in 1995.
Languages
Largest percentage of population speaking
Estimated world figures, for indicative purposes only.
* These languages are included in global rankings BUT excluded
from national rankings being non-official languages. For more
information on these languages, => Language map E.
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Assamese Assam
--
Bengali
West
Bengal,
Tripura,
A & N. Is.
Assam, Mizoram
Bihar, Orissa,
Meghalaya
Gujarati
Gujarat, Daman &Diu
D. & N. Haveli
--
Hindi
Bihar,
Himachal
Pr„
Chandigarh,
Delhi,
Haryana,
Rajasthan,
Madhya Pr., Uttar Pr.,
Punjab, Orissa,
W.
Bengal,
Andaman
& Nicobar Is.
Jammu
&
Kashmir,
Gujarat, Daman & Diu
Maharashtra,
Andhra Pr., Tripura
Kannada
Karnataka
--
Goa, Tamil Nadu
Kashmiri
Jammu & Kashmir
--
Malayalam Kerala, Lakhshadweep
Pondicherry
--
Marathi
Maharashtra
M.P, Daman &
Diu, Goa
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Oriya
Orissa
--
Punjabi
Punjab
Himachal
Pradesh
Chandigarh,
Delhi
Haryana, Rajasthan
U.P
Sindhi
--
Gujarat
Rajasthan
Tamil
T.N, Pondicherry
Kerala, Lakshadweep
Chandigarh, A&N Is. .
Telugu
Andhra Pradesh
Tamil Nadu,
Orissa
Karnataka
Pondicherry
Urdu
Rajasthan, UJP
Bihar, Maharashtra,
Karnataka
Andhra Pradesh
Punjab,
Haryana
Delhi,
Madhya
Pradesh
West Bengal
Konkani
Goa
--
Kerala
Manipuri
Manipur
--
Nepali
Sikkim
--
Himachal
Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
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