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Language?
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- August 30, 2010 14:08
- Category : Others
- 28 answers
Hi Moms,
Which is the most widely spoken language in India?
Today we had a discussion at office and I bet that Hindi is the not the widely spoken language..So moms pls let me know the answer soon..with proper proofs in google..
I will be out to meeting now..will get in another hour or so.
Thanks
-Vels
28 answers so far. What are your thoughts?
Best Answer
| 01 census[2] (total population 1,004.59 million) |
1991 census[3] (total population 838.14 million) |
Encarta 2007 estimate[4] (worldwide speakers)  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speakers | Percentage | Speakers | Percentage | Speakers | ||
| 1 | Hindi[5] | 342,048,642 | 34.04% | 237,272,114[6] | 22.0% | 236 M |
| 2 | Bengali | 183,369,769 | 18.11% | 209,595,738 | 18.30% | 207 M |
| 3 | Telugu | 74,002,856 | 7.37% | 66,017,615 | 7.87% | 69.7 M |
| 4 | Marathi | 71,936,894 | 6.99% | 62,481,681 | 7.45% | 68.0 M |
| 5 | Tamil | 60,793,814 | 5.91% | 53,006,368 | 6.32% | 66.0 M |
| 6 | Urdu | 51,536,111 | 5.01% | 43,406,932 | 5.18% | 60.3 M |
| 7 | Gujarati | 46,091,617 | 4.48% | 40,673,814 | 4.85% | 46.1 M |
| 8 | Kannada | 37,924,011 | 3.69% | 32,753,676 | 3.91% | 40.3 M |
| 9 | Malayalam | 33,066,392 | 3.21% | 30,377,176 | 3.62% | 35.7 M |
| 10 | Oriya | 33,017,446 | 3.21% | 28,061,313 | 3.35% | 32.3 M |
| 11 | Punjabi | 29,102,477 | 2.83% | 23,378,744 | 2.79% | 30 M |
| 12 | Assamese | 13,168,484 | 1.28% | 13,079,696 | 1.56% | 15.4 M |
| 13 | Angika | 30,000,000 | 2.9% | |||
| 14 | Maithili | 12,179,122 | 1.18% | |||
| 15 | Bhili/Bhilodi | 9,582,957 | 0.95% | 5,572,308 | 0.665% | |
| 16 | Santali | 6,469,600 | 0.64% | 5,216,325 | 0.622% | |
| 17 | Kashmiri | 5,527,698 | ||||
| 18 | Nepali | 2,871,749 | 0.28% | |||
| 19 | Gondi | 2,713,790 | 0.27% | 2,124,852 | 0.253% | |
| 20 | Sindhi | 2,535,485 | 0.25% | 2,122,848 | 0.248% | |
| 21 | Konkani | 2,489,015 | 0.24% | 1,760,607 | 0.210% | |
| 22 | Dogri | 2,282,589 | 0.22% | |||
| 23 | Khandeshi | 2,075,258 | 0.21% | |||
| 24 | Kurukh | 1,751,489 | 0.17% | 1,426,618 | 0.170% | |
| 25 | Tulu | 1,722,768 | 0.17% | 1,552,259 | 0.185% | |
| 26 | Meitei/Manipuri | 1,466,705* | 0.14% | 1,270,216 | 0.151% | |
| 27 | Bodo | 1,350,478 | 0.13% | 1,221,881 | 0.146% | |
| 28 | Khasi | 1,128,575 | 0.112% | |||
| 29 | Mundari | 1,061,352 | 0.105% | |||
| 30 | Ho | 1,042,724 | 0.103% | |||
Even i think it is Hindi and after that telugu followed by tamil... Not very sure though... 
I too go with Hindi.
1. Hindi
2. Bengali
3. Telugu
4. Marathi
5. Tamil
6. Urdu
7. Gujarati
8. Kannada
9. Malayalam
10. Oriya
Hi Vels,
Its hindi appadidhan wikipeadia solludhu...
check out this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India
Even I have heard..that telugu is most widely spoken language....irunga let me surf and let u all know...I can't lose....
how about 'balti adichufying' vels ?? Naan hindi thaan sonnen nu.......hindi seems to be one....enna bet vecheenga ?
Onnum ila samyu..Hindiya irundha I shud get Shashiraj a cornbhel...illana he shud get me..Its not just a matter of 25 Rs...but winning is important la..
Hindi spoken by 43 % of the population . Next is English . This is as per the census taken last in 2001....
Hi Vel,
I think languages like Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, , Kashmiri, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi will have hindi slang and they use hindi words in between like tamil & telugu words in sanskrit may be that is the reason why they think Hindi as the most widely speaking lang...
Telugu is the second most speaking lang & its my mother tongue too
List in order of total speakers
| Rank |
Country |
% English Speakers |
Eligible Population |
Total English Speakers |
As First Language |
As an Additional Language |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  United States |
95.81% | 262,375,152 | 251,388,301 | 215,423,557 | 35,964,744 | Figures are from the year 2000 U.S. census. English speaker figures are for persons age 5 and older. Total population age 5 and older was 262,375,152 of which 251,388,301 stated that they spoke English "very well" or "well". Third language speakers are respondents age 5 and older who reported they do not speak English at home but know it "very well" or "well". [1][2] |
| 2 |  India |
23.18% | 1,100,000,000 | 232,000,000 | 226,449[3] | 223,000,000 second language speakers. 8,773,000 third language speakers |
Figures include both those who speak English as a second language and those who speak it as a third language. 1991 figures for second, third. 2001 figures for native language.[4][5][6] The figures include English speakers, but not English users.[7] Had the English user number been included, then the total number would be well over 750 million. |
| 3 |  Nigeria |
53.34% | 148,093,000 | 79,000,000 | 4,000,000 | >75,000,000 | Figures are for speakers of Nigerian Pidgin, an English-based pidgin or creole. Ihemere gives a range of roughly 3 to 5 million native speakers; the midpoint of the range is used in the table. Ihemere, Kelechukwu Uchechukwu. 2006. "A Basic Description and Analytic Treatment of Noun Clauses in Nigerian Pidgin." Nordic Journal of African Studies 15(3): 296–313. |
| 4 |  United Kingdom |
97.74% | 60,975,000 | 59,600,000 | 58,100,000 | 1,500,000 | Source: Crystal (2005), p. 109. |
| 5 |  Philippines |
55.46%[8] | 97,000,000 | 49,800,000 | 3,427,000[8] | 46,373,000 | Total speakers: Census 2000, text above Figure 7. 63.71% of the 66.7 million people aged 5 years or more could speak English. Native speakers: Census 1995, as quoted by Andrew Gonzalez in The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 19 (5&6), 487-525. (1998). Ethnologue lists 3.4 million native speakers with 52% of the population speaking it as a additional language.[8] |
Ennapa..i dont have proof...so I got him a Bhel corn..but I am sure..in some quiz on a TV show..they asked abt this...and hindi was not the answer..
Anyways..Shashi is happy having hard corn...
Hi Vel,
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