How Many Languages in India
According to LANGAUGES OF INDIA, 1991 CENSUS up to 10,000 types of languages are spoken by Indian people. There are 216 types of mother tongues, 18 types of scheduled languages and 96 types of non specified languages spoken in India. Most of language belonging to the Indo-European families.
How many languages in Indian:
18 Scheduled Languages are following:
| Serial No. | Language Name | Number of Persons |
| 1 | Assamese | 13,079,696 |
| 2 | Bengali | 69,595,738 |
| 3 | Gujarati | 40,673,814 |
| 4 | Hindi | 337,272,114 |
| 5 | Kannada | 32,753,676 |
| 6 | Kashmiri | 56,693 |
| 7 | Konkani | 1,760,607 |
| 8 | Malayalam | 30,377,176 |
| 9 | Manipuri | 1,270,216 |
| 10 | Marathi | 62,481,681 |
| 11 | Nepali | 2,076,645 |
| 12 | Oriya | 28,061,313 |
| 13 | Punjabi | 32,753,676 |
| 14 | Sanskrit | 49,736 |
| 15 | Sindhi | 2,122,848 |
| 16 | Tamil | 53,006,368 |
| 17 | Telugu | 66,017,615 |
| 18 | Urdu | 43,406,932 |
Languages of Indian and their native speakers:
| Rank | Languages | Speakers (2001 Census) | Percentage |
| 1 | Hindi languages | 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 | Bhili/Bhilodi | 9,582,957 | 0.93% |
| 15 | Santali | 6,469,600 | 0.63% |
| 16 | Kashmiri | 5,527,698 | 0.54% |
| 17 | Nepali | 2,871,749 | 0.28% |
| 18 | Gondi | 2,713,790 | 0.26% |
| 19 | Sindhi | 2,535,485 | 0.25% |
| 20 | Konkani | 2,489,015 | 0.24% |
| 21 | Dogri | 2,282,589 | 0.22% |
| 22 | Khandeshi | 2,075,258 | 0.21% |
| 23 | Kurukh | 1,751,489 | 0.17% |
| 24 | Tulu | 1,722,768 | 0.17% |
| 25 | Meitei/Manipuri | 1,466,705 | 0.14% |
| 26 | Bodo | 1,350,478 | 0.13% |
| 27 | Khasi | 1,128,575 | 0.11% |
| 28 | Mundari | 1,061,352 | 0.10% |
| 29 | Ho | 1,042,724 | 0.10% |
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