Maithili Total Speakers in India by State: 2001-2011

Maithili had 1.43 crore total speakers in the 2011 Census, up from 1.25 crore in 2001. The language was not separately recorded in the 1991 Census, having been classified under other categories before being added to the Eighth Schedule in 2003. In 2011, 1.36 crore people…