Hindi – 52,83,47,193 – 43.63%
Bengali – 9,72,37,669 – 8.03%
Marathi – 8,30,26,680 – 6.86%
Telugu – 8,11,27,740 – 6.70%
Tamil – 6,90,26,881 – 5.70%
Gujarati – 5,54,92,554 – 4.58%
Urdu – 5,07,72,631 – 4.19%
Kannada – 4,37,06,512 – 3.61%
Odia- 3,75,21,324 – 3.10%
Malayalam – 3,48,38,819 – 2.88%
Punjabi – 3,31,24,726 – 2.74%
(Census 2011)
