Malayalam Total Speakers in India by State: 1991-2011

Malayalam had 3.56 crore total speakers in the 2011 Census, up from 3.38 crore in 2001 and 3.07 crore in 1991. Of the 2011 total, 3.48 crore declared it their mother tongue, making it one of the most concentrated major Indian languages. Its second-language base remains small at…