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Author Message   Vespa Pilla Bewarse Username: Vespa Post Number: 313 Registered: 10-2014 Posted From: 183.82.184.72 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Saturday, January 03, 2015 - 11:48 am:    List of languages by number of native speakers Telugu /ˈtɛlʉɡuː/[3] (తెలుగు telugu, IPA: [t̪el̪uɡu]) is a Dravidian language and is the only language other than Hindi and Bengali that is predominantly spoken in more than one Indian state, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and in the union territory of Yanam where it is also an official language. It is also spoken by significant minorities in the Andaman and Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, and by the Sri Lankan Gypsy people. It is one of six languages designated a classical language of India.[4][5] Telugu ranks third by the number of native speakers in India (74 million),[6] thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide[7] and is the most widely spoken Dravidian language. It is one of the twenty-two scheduled languages of the Republic of India.[8] List of languages by number of native speakers in India Rank Language 2001 census[3] (total population 1,028,610,328 ) 1991 census[4] (total population 838,583,988) Encarta 2007 estimate[5] (worldwide speakers) Speakers Percentage Speakers Percentage Speakers 1 Hindi 422,048,642 41.03% 329,518,087 39.29% 366 M 2 Bengali 83,369,769 8.11% 69,595,738 8.30% 207 M 3 Telugu 74,002,856 7.19% 66,017,615 7.87% 69.7 M 4 Marathi 71,936,894 6.99% 62,481,681 7.45% 68.0 M 5 Tamil 60,793,814 5.91% 53,006,368 6.32% 66.0 M 6 Urdu 51,536,111 5.01% 43,406,932 5.18% 60.3 M 7 Gujarati 46,091,617 4.48% 40,673,814 4.85% 46.1 M 8 Kannada 37,924,011 3.69% 32,753,676 3.91% 35.3 M 9 Malayalam 33,066,392 3.21% 30,377,176 3.62% 35.7 M 10 Oriya 33,017,446 3.21% 28,061,313 3.35% 32.3 M