List of languages by number of native speakers in India is home to several hundred languages . Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European , the Dravidian , the Austroasiatic , or the Sino-Tibetan , with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified. The SIL Ethnologue lists 415 living languages for India.Overview India's central government has 23 constitutionally recognized official languages . Hindi and English are typically used as an official language by the central government. State governments use their respective official languages. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in the northern parts of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of the "Hindi Belt". According to 2001 Census , 53.6% of the Indian population declared that they speak Hindi as either their first or second language , in which 41% of them have declared it as their native language or mother tongue . 12% of Indians declared that they can speak English as a second language . Thirteen languages account for more than 1% of Indian population each, and between themselves for over 95%; all of them are "scheduled languages of the constitution". Scheduled languages spoken by fewer than 1% of Indians are Santali , Kashmiri , Nepali , Sindhi , Konkani , Dogri , Meitei , Bodo and Sanskrit . The largest language that is not "scheduled" is Bhili , followed by Gondi , Khandeshi , Tulu and Kurukh . Of the Indian population in 1991, 19.4% exhibited bilingualism and 7.2% exhibited trilingualism . India has a Greenberg's diversity index of 0.914—i.e. two people selected at random from the country will have different native languages in 91.4% of cases. As per the 2011 Census of India , languages by highest number of speakers are as follows: Hindi, Bengali , Marathi , Telugu , Tamil , Gujarati , Urdu , Kannada , Odia , Malayalam .Ordered by number of speakers as first language .More than one million speakers The 2001 census recorded 29 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers . The languages in bold are scheduled languages. The first table is restricted to only speaking populations for scheduled languages.* Excludes figures of Paomata, Mao-Maram and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district of Manipur for 2001.** The percentage of speakers of each language for 2001 has been worked out on the total population of India excluding the population of Mao-Maram, Paomata and Purul subdivisions of Senapati district of Manipur due to cancellation of census results.100,000 to one million speakers List of mother tongues by number of speakers Each of the languages of the 2001 census subsumes one or more mother tongues . Speaker numbers are available for these mother tongues and they are also included in the speaker numbers for their respective language. For example, the language Telugu includes the mother tongues of Telugu, Vadari and "Others". The General Notes from the 2001 census define "mother tongue" as "the language spoken in childhood by the person's mother to the person. If the mother died in infancy , the language mainly spoken in the person's home in childhood will be the mother tongue." The following table lists those mother tongues that have more than one million speakers according to the 2011 census:General references
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