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Hindi Speakers in India by State: 1991 to 2011 Census

Hindi had 69.16 crore total speakers in the 2011 Census, by far the largest of any Indian language, up from 55.14 crore in 2001 and 41.34 crore in 1991. Of the 2011 total, 52.83 crore declared it their mother tongue, while 13.89 crore knew it as a second language, a figure…

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SourceTable C-17: Population by Bilingualism and Trilingualism

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