List of languages by number of native speakers in India
More than one million speakers
The 2001 census recorded 29 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit).

List of languages by number of native speakers in India

Section Title: More than one million speakers
Table Section Text: The 2001 census recorded 29 individual languages as having more than 1 million native speakers (0.1% of total population). The languages in bold are scheduled languages (the only scheduled language with less than 1 million native speakers is Sanskrit).

Language	First language speakers	First language speakers as a percentage of total population	Second language speakers	Third language speakers	Total speakers	Total speakers as a percentage of total population

Hindi	422,048,642	41.03%	98,207,180	31,160,696	551,416,518	53.60%

English	226,449	0.02%	86,125,221	38,993,066	125,344,736	12.18%

Bengali	83,369,769	8.10%	6,637,222	1,108,088	91,115,079	8.86%

Telugu	74,002,856	7.19%	9,723,626	1,266,019	84,992,501	8.26%

Marathi	71,936,894	6.99%	9,546,414	2,701,498	84,184,806	8.18%

Tamil	60,793,814	5.91%	4,992,253	956,335	66,742,402	6.49%

Urdu	51,536,111	5.01%	6,535,489	1,007,912	59,079,512	5.74%

Kannada	37,924,011	3.69%	11,455,287	1,396,428	50,775,726	4.94%

Gujarati	46,091,617	4.48%	3,476,355	703,989	50,271,961	4.89%

Odia	33,017,446	3.21%	3,272,151	319,525	36,609,122	3.56%

Malayalam	33,066,392	3.21%	499,188	195,885	33,761,465	3.28%

Sanskrit	14,135	<0.01%	1,234,931	3,742,223	4,991,289	0.49%

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Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India.

final_sentence: Telugu ranks fourth among the languages with the highest number of native speakers in India.