List of languages by number of native speakers in India (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "List of languages by number of native speakers in India" in English language version.

refsWebsite

Global rank English rank

14web.archive.org

1^st place

14censusindia.gov.in

271^st place

204^th place

3indiatimes.com

17^th place

15^th place

2ethnologue.com

339^th place

388^th place

1nclm.nic.in

3,366^th place

2,572^nd place

1livemint.com

390^th place

227^th place

1qz.com

1,110^th place

695^th place

1deccanherald.com

516^th place

291^st place

1indiaspend.com

low place

1business-standard.com

350^th place

206^th place

1indiatoday.in

94^th place

66^th place

1msn.com

117^th place

145^th place

business-standard.com (Global: 350^th place; English: 206^th place)

—"What census data reveals about use of Indian languages". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi Added 100Mn Speakers In A Decade; Kashmiri 2nd Fast Growing Language". 28 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers".
—"Hindi grew rapidly in non-Hindi states even without official mandate". India Today. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

censusindia.gov.in (Global: 271^st place; English: 204^th place)

2001 census data Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
In 1991, there were 90,000,000 "users" of English. (Census of India Indian Census Archived 2006-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, Issue 10, 2003, pp. 8–10, (Feature: Languages of West Bengal in Census and Surveys, Bilingualism and Trilingualism) and Tropf, Herbert S. 2004. India and its Languages^[usurped]. Siemens AG, Munich.)
"COMPARATIVE SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES -1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001". censusindia.gov. New Delhi, India: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 30 November 2007. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/census-tables Table C-17
Statement 4 : Scheduled Languages in descending order of speakers' strength – 2011
Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs. "C-17 POPULATION BY BILINGUALISM AND TRILINGUALISM". Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
Comparative Speaker's Strength of Scheduled Languages -1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, Census of India, 1991
Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2000 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine, Census of India, 2001
"Language" (PDF). Census of India. New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
Statement 1 : Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011 Archived 2018-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
Statement 2 : Distribution of population by Scheduled and other Languages India, States and Union Territories – 2011 Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
The data are from http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-0000.XLSX. Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
"Census Data 2001 General Notes". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013.
"2011 Census tables: C-16, population by mother tongue". Census of India Website. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

deccanherald.com (Global: 516^th place; English: 291^st place)

—"What census data reveals about use of Indian languages". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi Added 100Mn Speakers In A Decade; Kashmiri 2nd Fast Growing Language". 28 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers".
—"Hindi grew rapidly in non-Hindi states even without official mandate". India Today. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

ethnologue.com (Global: 339^th place; English: 388^th place)

Lewis, M. Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2014). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Seventeenth edition) : India". Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
Paul, Lewis M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. Fennig, eds. (2015). "Summary by country". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Eighteenth ed.). SIL International.

indiaspend.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

—"What census data reveals about use of Indian languages". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi Added 100Mn Speakers In A Decade; Kashmiri 2nd Fast Growing Language". 28 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers".
—"Hindi grew rapidly in non-Hindi states even without official mandate". India Today. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

indiatimes.com (Global: 17^th place; English: 15^th place)

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"Nearly 60% of Indians speak a language other than Hindi". The Times of India. 21 June 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
"Indiaspeak: English is our 2nd language". The Times of India. 14 March 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2024.

economictimes.indiatimes.com

Jain, Bharti (27 June 2018). "Hindi mother tongue of 44% in India, Bangla second most-spoken". The Economic Times. Retrieved 27 June 2018.

indiatoday.in (Global: 94^th place; English: 66^th place)

—"What census data reveals about use of Indian languages". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi Added 100Mn Speakers In A Decade; Kashmiri 2nd Fast Growing Language". 28 June 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
—"Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers".
—"Hindi grew rapidly in non-Hindi states even without official mandate". India Today. 11 April 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

livemint.com (Global: 390^th place; English: 227^th place)

"How a Bihari lost his mother tongue to Hindi".

msn.com (Global: 117^th place; English: 145^th place)

encarta.msn.com

"Languages Spoken by More Than 10 Million People – Table – MSN Encarta". Archived from the original on 3 December 2007.

nclm.nic.in (Global: 3,366^th place; English: 2,572^nd place)

"50th Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India (July 2012 to June 2013)" (PDF). Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2016.

qz.com (Global: 1,110^th place; English: 695^th place)

"These four charts break down India's complex relationship with Hindi". 24 July 2014.

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

"50th Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India (July 2012 to June 2013)" (PDF). Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
2001 census data Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
In 1991, there were 90,000,000 "users" of English. (Census of India Indian Census Archived 2006-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, Issue 10, 2003, pp. 8–10, (Feature: Languages of West Bengal in Census and Surveys, Bilingualism and Trilingualism) and Tropf, Herbert S. 2004. India and its Languages^[usurped]. Siemens AG, Munich.)
"COMPARATIVE SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES -1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001". censusindia.gov. New Delhi, India: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 30 November 2007. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs. "C-17 POPULATION BY BILINGUALISM AND TRILINGUALISM". Archived from the original on 13 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
Comparative Speaker's Strength of Scheduled Languages -1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine, Census of India, 1991
Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2000 Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine, Census of India, 2001
"Language" (PDF). Census of India. New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
Statement 1 : Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues – 2011 Archived 2018-06-27 at the Wayback Machine
Statement 2 : Distribution of population by Scheduled and other Languages India, States and Union Territories – 2011 Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
"Languages Spoken by More Than 10 Million People – Table – MSN Encarta". Archived from the original on 3 December 2007.
The data are from http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-0000.XLSX. Archived 2018-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
"Census Data 2001 General Notes". Archived from the original on 22 February 2013.
"2011 Census tables: C-16, population by mother tongue". Census of India Website. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2018.

List of languages by number of native speakers in India (English Wikipedia)

business-standard.com (Global: 350th place; English: 206th place)

censusindia.gov.in (Global: 271st place; English: 204th place)

deccanherald.com (Global: 516th place; English: 291st place)

ethnologue.com (Global: 339th place; English: 388th place)

indiaspend.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

indiatimes.com (Global: 17th place; English: 15th place)