Question: The native language of Dr. Akshaykumar Malharrao Kale is spoken by how many people in 2007?
Context: Bengali ( ), also known by its endonym Bangla ( ; বাংলা ] ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian Subcontinent.  It is the national and official language of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and the official language of some eastern and north-eastern states of the Republic of India, including West Bengal, Tripura, Assam (Barak Valley) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.  It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.  With 205 million speakers, Bengali is the seventh most spoken native language in the world by population.  Dictionaries from the early 20th century attributed slightly more than half of the Bengali vocabulary to native words (i.e., naturally modified Sanskrit words, corrupted forms of Sanskrit words, and loanwords from non-Indo-European languages), about 30 percent to unmodified Sanskrit words, and the remainder to foreign words.  Dominant in the last group was Persian, which was also the source of some grammatical forms.  More recent studies suggest that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, mainly because of the preference of Bengali speakers for the colloquial style.  Today, Bengali is the primary language spoken in Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken language in India. Dr. Akshaykumar Malharrao Kale (Marathi: डॉ.अक्षयकुमार मल्हारराव काळे) born 27 July 1953, is a critic of modern Marathi poetry, and was Professor and Head of Marathi Department in RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur, India. Marathi ( ; मराठी "Marāṭhī "; ] ) is an Indian language spoken predominantly by the Marathi people of Maharashtra.  It is the official language and co-official language in the Maharashtra and Goa states of Western India, respectively, and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.  There were 73 million speakers in 2007; Marathi ranks 19th in the list of most spoken languages in the world.  Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India, after Hindi, Bengali and Telugu in that order.  Marathi has some of the oldest literature of all modern Indo-Aryan languages, dating from about 900 AD.  The major dialects of Marathi are Standard Marathi and the Varhadi dialect.  Malvani Konkani has been heavily influenced by Marathi varieties.  The earliest example of the existence of Marathi as an independent language dates back to more than 2,000 years The Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA) in Fairbanks, Alaska, known officially as the Michael E. Krauss Alaska Native Language Archive, is an extensive repository for manuscripts and recordings documenting the Native Languages of Alaska.  The Archive was created as part of the Alaska Native Language Center by state legislation in 1972.  In 2009 the Archive was administratively separated and now exists as a sister organization to the Alaska Native Language Center, collaborating on numerous language efforts in Alaska. Gan is a group of Chinese varieties spoken as the native language by many people in the Jiangxi province of China, as well as significant populations in surrounding regions such as Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, and Fujian.  Gan is a member of the Sinitic languages of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and Hakka is the closest Chinese variety to Gan in terms of phonetics. Filipino ("Wikang Filipino" ] ), in this usage, refers to the national language ("Wikang pambansa"/"Pambansang wika") of the Philippines.  Filipino is also designated, along with English, as an official language of the country.  It is the standard register of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian, regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines.  As of 2007, Tagalog is the first language of 28 million people, or about one-third of the Philippine population, while 45 million speak Filipino as their second language.  Filipino is among the 185 languages of the Philippines identified in the "Ethnologue".  Officially, Filipino is defined by the Commission on the Filipino Language ("Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino" in Filipino or simply KWF) as "the native language, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago." Dakhini also spelled Dakkhani and Deccani, is an Urdu dialect that arose as a Muslim court language of the Deccan Plateau ca. 1300 AD in ways similar to Urdu.  It is similar to Urdu in its influence from Arabic and Persian with a Prakrit base, but differs because of the strong influence of Marathi, Telugu and Kannada spoken in the states of Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.  This dialect has a rich and extensive literary heritage.  Despite it being the native language of most Muslims of the erstwhile Princely States of Hyderabad State and the Kingdom of Mysore, it is also the spoken form of Hindi-Urdu for most Hindus and non-Hindus of the region to this day and is the most common "street-language" in several cities including Hyderabad, Bangalore, Aurangabad and Mangalore.  Dakhini is the native language of the Dakhini Muslims.  Also the people from Hyderabad Deccan call themselves Hyderabadi or Deccani. Manang, also called Manangba, Manange, Manang Ke, Nyishang, Nyishangte, and Nyishangba is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Nepal.  Native speakers refer to the language as "ŋyeshaŋ", meaning 'our language'.  It is one of half a dozen languages in the Tamangic branch of the Sino-Tibetan family.  Manang and its most closely related languages are often written as TGTM in literature, referring to Tamang, Gurung, Thakali, and Manangba, due to the high degree of similarity in the linguistic characteristics of the languages.  The language is unwritten and almost solely spoken within the Manang District, leading it to be classified as threatened, with the number of speakers continuing to decline.  Suspected reasons for the decline include parents not passing down the language to their children, in order to allow for what they see as more advanced communication with other groups of people, and thus gain more opportunities.  Due to the proximity of the district to Tibet, as well as various globally widespread languages being introduced into the area, use of the native language is declining in favor of new languages, which are perceived to aid in the advancement of the people and region. Punjabi ( ; Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ "pañjābī" ; Shahmukhi: "paṉjābī" ) is a native language of the Punjab region belonging to the Northwestern Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.  Spoken by over 100 million native speakers worldwide, it ranks as the 10th most widely spoken language (2015) in the world.  It is the native language of the Punjabi people, who associate with the historical Punjab region of India and Pakistan.  Among Indo-European languages, it is unusual in having lexical tone. A first language, native language or mother tongue (also known as father tongue, arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.  In some countries, the term "native language" or "mother tongue" refers to the language of one's ethnic group rather than one's first language.  Children brought up speaking more than one language can have more than one native language, and be bilingual or multilingual.  By contrast, a "second language" is any language that one speaks other than one's first language.
Answer: 73 million