Magadhi/Magahi Native Speakers Across Indian States: 2011

Magadhi (also written Magahi) had 1.27 crore native speakers in the 2011 Census, a slight decline from 1.40 crore in 2001, likely driven by shifting self-identification patterns between censuses rather than actual speaker loss. In 1991 the count stood at 1.06 crore. The language is…