India has at least 11 languages with more than 30 million native speakers

Hindi- 530 mill

Bengali- 97.2 mill

Marathi- 83 mill

Telugu- 81.1 mill

Tamilnadu- 70 mill

Gujarati- 55.4 mill

Urdu- 50.7 mill

Kannada- 43.7 mill

Odia- 37.5 mill

Malayalam- 34.8 mill

Punjabi- 33.1 mill

And 20 more languages with more than a million native speakers.

(Data from Indian census 2011)

For context total native speakers for

Vietnamese: 85 million

Korean: 82 million

French: 81 million

Italian: 65 million

Thai: 21 million

(Data from Ethnologue, 2023)

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