Bengali had 10.75 crore total speakers in the 2011 Census, up from 9.11 crore in 2001 and 7.43 crore in 1991, making it India's second-largest language by speakers. Of the 2011 total, 9.72 crore declared it their mother tongue, with around 90 lakh speaking it as a second…
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