India is a home of several different languages. In India, Hindi and English are mostly used language. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of “Hindi” as a broad variety of “Hindi Languages”.
Currently there are 57 languages of India.
| Rank | Language | Speakers (Approx.) | Percentage |
| 1 | Hindi | 422,048,642 | 41.03% |
| 2 | Bengali | 83,369,769 | 8.11% |
| 3 | Telugu | 74,002,856 | 7.19% |
| 4 | Marathi | 71,936,894 | 6.99% |
| 5 | Tamil | 60,793,814 | 5.91% |
| 6 | Urdu | 51,536,111 | 5.01% |
| 7 | Gujarati | 46,091,617 | 4.48% |
| 8 | Kannada | 37,924,011 | 3.69% |
| 9 | Malayalam | 33,066,392 | 3.21% |
| 10 | Oriya | 33,017,446 | 3.21% |
| 11 | Punjabi | 29,102,477 | 2.83% |
| 12 | Assamese | 13,168,484 | 1.28% |
| 13 | Maithili | 12,179,122 | 1.18% |
| 14 | Bhili/Bhilodi | 9,582,957 | 0.93% |
| 15 | Santali | 6,469,600 | 0.63% |
| 16 | Kashmiri | 5,527,698 | 0.54% |
| 17 | Nepali | 2,871,749 | 0.28% |
| 18 | Gondi | 2,713,790 | 0.26% |
| 19 | Sindhi | 2,535,485 | 0.25% |
| 20 | Konkani | 2,489,015 | 0.24% |
| 21 | Dogri | 2,282,589 | 0.22% |
| 22 | Khandeshi | 2,075,258 | 0.21% |
| 23 | Kurukh | 1,751,489 | 0.17% |
| 24 | Tulu | 1,722,768 | 0.17% |
| 25 | Meitei/Manipuri | 1,466,705* | 0.14% |
| 26 | Bodo | 1,350,478 | 0.13% |
| 27 | Khasi | 1,128,575 | 0.11% |
| 28 | Mundari | 1,061,352 | 0.10% |
| 29 | Ho | 1,042,724 | 0.10% |
| 30 | Kui | 916,222 | |
| 31 | Garo | 889,479 | |
| 32 | Kokborok | 854,023 | |
| 33 | Mizo | 674,756 | |
| 34 | Halabi | 593,443 | |
| 35 | Korku | 574,481 | |
| 36 | Munda | 469,357 | |
| 37 | Mishing | 390,583 | 0.05% |
| 38 | Karbi/Mikir | 366,229 | 0.04% |
| 39 | Saurashtra | 310,000 | 0.04% |
| 40 | Savara | 273,168 | 0.03% |
| 41 | Koya | 270,994 | 0.03% |
| 42 | English | 226,449 | 0.03% |
| 43 | Kharia | 225,556 | 0.03% |
| 44 | Khond/Kondh | 220,783 | 0.03% |
| 45 | Nishi | 173,791 | 0.02% |
| 46 | Ao | 172,449 | 0.02% |
| 50 | Sema | 166,157 | 0.02% |
| 51 | Kisan | 162,088 | 0.02% |
| 52 | Adi | 158,409 | 0.02% |
| 53 | Rabha | 139,365 | 0.02% |
| 54 | Konyak | 137,722 | 0.02% |
| 55 | Malto | 108,148 | 0.01% |
| 56 | Thado | 107,992 | 0.01% |
| 57 | Tangkhul | 101,841 | 0.01% |