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Languages Spoken in India

Official: English and Hindi

India has a population of 1.4 billion and is one of the most linguistically diverse countries on earth, with 29 languages meeting our inclusion threshold. English and Hindi serve as the official languages. Of the languages spoken in India, 13 are supported by LEXIGO's professional translation services.

1.4B
Population
29
Languages
13
LEXIGO

Languages spoken in India

Hindi Official
Devanagari
LEXIGO translation services →
41%
CLDR
English Official
English Braille, English alphabet
LEXIGO translation services →
19%
CLDR
Bangla Regional
Bangla alphabet, Bengali Braille
LEXIGO translation services →
8%
CLDR
Telugu Regional
Telugu
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7%
CLDR
Marathi Regional
Devanagari, Modi
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7%
CLDR
Tamil Regional
Arabic script, Koleluttu
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6%
CLDR
Urdu Regional
Urdu orthography
LEXIGO translation services →
5%
CLDR
Gujarati Regional
Gujarati
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5%
CLDR
Kannada Regional
Kannada script
LEXIGO translation services →
4%
CLDR
Malayalam Regional
Arabi Malayalam script, Malayalam script
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3%
CLDR
Odia Regional
Odia
3%
CLDR
Punjabi Regional
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
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3%
CLDR
Bhojpuri
Devanagari, Kaithi
2%
CLDR
Awadhi
Devanagari
2%
CLDR
Assamese Regional
Assamese alphabet
1%
CLDR
Haryanvi
Devanagari, Urdu orthography
1%
CLDR
Magahi
Devanagari
1%
CLDR
Marwari
Arabic script, Devanagari
1%
CLDR
Maithili Regional
Devanagari, Kaithi
1%
CLDR
Chhattisgarhi
Devanagari
1%
CLDR
Deccan
1.0%
CLDR
Kanauji
0.6%
CLDR
Nepali Regional
Devanagari
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0.6%
CLDR
Santali Regional
Bangla alphabet, Bangla–Assamese script
0.6%
CLDR
Kashmiri Regional
Persian alphabet
0.4%
CLDR
Konkani Regional
Arabic script, Devanagari
0.3%
CLDR
Sindhi Regional
Devanagari Sindhi, Gujarati
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0.3%
CLDR
Khasi Regional
Latin script
0.1%
CLDR
Sanskrit Regional
Devanagari, Kannada script
0.0%
CLDR
CIA World Factbook

"Hindi 43.6%, Bengali 8%, Marathi 6.9%, Telugu 6.7%, Tamil 5.7%, Gujarati 4.6%, Urdu 4.2%, Kannada 3.6%, Odia 3.1%, Malayalam 2.9%, Punjabi 2.7%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.1%, other 5.6%;  English is the subsidiary official language but is the most important one for national, political, and commercial communication (2011 est.)"

Data sources
Unicode CLDR (population percentages)
CIA World Factbook (official languages)
Wikidata (language families, scripts)
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