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Kannada Total Speakers in India by State: 1991-2011

Kannada had 5.88 crore total speakers in the 2011 Census, up from 5.08 crore in 2001 and 4.18 crore in 1991. Of the 2011 total, 4.37 crore declared it their mother tongue. A notable 1.36 crore knew Kannada as a second language, reflecting its dominant position in Karnataka's…

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SourceTable C-17: Population by Bilingualism and Trilingualism

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