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How many Muslims in India speak Urdu?
Urdu is the mother tongue or the first language of approximately 9\% of the Pakistani population, 7\% of the Indian population. This means 18 million Pakistanis and 95 million Indians speak Urdu as their first language.
How many people read Urdu in India?
Regional distribution
| Rank | State | Urdu speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Persons | ||
| India | 85,061,078 | |
| 1 | Uttar Pradesh | 38,272,080 |
| 2 | Bihar | 17,757,548 |
Do Kerala muslims know Urdu?
In South India, 30\% of Muslims in Tamil Nadu may be Urdu-speaking. But in Kerala the fraction is almost zero, while in Gujarat and West Bengal less than 10\% of the Muslims are Urdu-speaking….Muslims and Urdu in India.
| State | Karnataka |
|---|---|
| Hindu | 84\% |
| Muslim | 13\% |
| Urdu | 11\% |
| Ratio | 84\% |
Do Kerala Muslims know Urdu?
How many Urdu are in India?
There are over 100 million native speakers of Urdu in India and Pakistan together: there were 50.8 million Urdu speakers in India (4.34\% of the total population) as per the 2011 census; approximately 16 million in Pakistan in 2006.
Is Urdu an Indian language?
The subject, object, auxiliary, verb, grammar, tenses of Urdu are very much Indian and like the Hindi language. “Despite its Persian script, Urdu is an Indian language because there are several examples of great Indian languages which are written in scripts derived from outside the country,” informed he.
Why is Urdu the mother language of Indian Muslims?
Indian Muslims have various ethnicities and it’s no where written that their mother tongue should have to be Urdu. Though, Arabic is the religious language of all the Muslims as the Quran was revealed in this, Urdu is no special or holds any religious significance for Muslims.
Does Urdu belong to Muslims only?
No. Urdu does not belong to Muslims only, it is a comman heritage of Indians although now it is labelled to be a language of muslims only. we the North Indian muslims primarily and the Deccan muslims (Hyderabad and adjoining areas with their own version of Urdu) have Urdu as mother tongue.
How many people speak Urdu in Karnataka?
In Karnataka, 66.18 lakh recorded Urdu as their mother tongue. These four states put together amount to more than 2.15 crore Urdu speakers. This figure is almost double the number of Urdu speakers in UP. In other north Indian states such as Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the Urdu speakers are 9.16 lakh and 6.64 lakh respectively.
Is Urdu really the sixth most spoken language?
Urdu was the sixth most spoken language according to the 2001 census data, but has fallen to seventh (overtaken by Gujarati) in the 2011 census. The data also shows Hindi has added about 10 crore speakers between 2001 and 2011.