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Is Hindi spoken all over India?
The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit)….More than one million speakers.
| Language | Hindi | |
|---|---|---|
| First language speakers | Figure | 528,347,193 |
| \% of total population | 43.63\% | |
| Second language speakers | 139,207,180 | |
| Third language speakers | 24,160,696 |
Is Hindi mother tongue of India?
43\% of Indians speak the Hindi language, which includes many mother tongues such as Bhojpuri, Rajasthani & Hindi. Only about 26\% of Indians speak Hindi as mother tongue under the broader Hindi language grouping (according to Census 2011).
What percentage of Indians speak Hindi as their mother tongue?
It may be mother tongue for 20\% and there are many states they adopted Hindi as one of their main language so it is spoken by 50\% of Indian. Tamil people mother tongue is Tamil only and we don’t speak Hindi in Tamil nadu and our school also there is no Hindi.
What is the mother tongue of 55 crore people in India?
Released by the office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, the data reveals that Hindi is the mother tongue of nearly 55 crore people in India, with about 8\% people holding Bengali as their mother tongue, followed by Marathi at just over 7\%.
What is the least spoken language in India?
Among India’s 22 scheduled languages, Sanskrit is the least spoken, with just about 25,000 speakers listing it as their mother tongue. The Census records a ‘mother tongue’ as the “the language spoken in childhood by the person’s mother to the person”. It makes a distinction between scheduled and non-scheduled languages.
How many languages are spoken in India?
As per the Census 2011 data, 96.71\% of Indians have one of the 22 scheduled languages as their mother tongue, while the remaining 3.29\% account for the other languages (non-scheduled).