Claim: Languages of India vary and range from the most widely used Hindi and even up to English which is used by 10.6 percent of India's population.
Evidence: English 10.6 57.1 Hindi Bengali 8.9 Marathi 8.2 Telugu 7.8 Tamil 6.3 Gujarati 5.0 Urdu 5.2 Kannada 4.9 Odia 3.5 Malayalam 2.9 Punjabi 3.0 Assamese 2.0 Maithili 1.2 Sanskrit 0.3