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The Census of India records and publishes data with respect to the number of speakers for languages and dialects, but uses its own unique terminology, distinguishing between language and mother tongue. The mother tongues are grouped within each language.
Jul 1, 2018 · More than 19,500 languages or dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues, according to the latest analysis of a census released this week. There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore, it said. The Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, said since a household may ...
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Individual mother tongues in India number several hundred, and more than a thousand if major dialects are included. The SIL Ethnologue lists over 400 languages for India; 24 of these languages are spoken by more than a million native speakers, and 114 by more than 10,000.
The 2011 census recorded 31 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit ).
First Language Speakers(language)First Language Speakers(figure [14])Second Language Speakers [14]Third Language Speakers [14]528,347,19343.63%139,207,18097,237,6698.03%9,037,22283,026,6806.86%12,923,62681,127,7406.70%11,946,414Indian languages, languages spoken in the state of India, generally classified as belonging to the following families: Indo-European (the Indo-Iranian branch in particular), Dravidian, Austroasiatic ( Munda in particular), and Sino-Tibetan ( Tibeto-Burman in particular).
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Jul 1, 2018 · Press Trust of India More than 19,500 languages or dialects are spoken in India as mother tongues, according to the latest analysis of a census released this week. There are 121 languages which...
Even Sir George Grierson's twelve-volume Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1923) – material for which was collected in the last decade of the 19th century, had identified 179 languages and 544 dialects. One of the early Census reports also showed 188 languages and 49 dialects (1921 census).
