2 Bengali 83,369,769 8.11% 69,595,738 8.30% 207 M 3 Telugu 74,002,856 7.37% 66,017,615 7.87% 69.7 M 4 Marathi 71,936,894 6.99% 62,481,681 7.45% 68.0 M 5 Tamil 60,793,814 5.91% 53,006,368 6.32% 66.0 M 6 Urdu 51,536,111 5.01% 43,406,932 5.18% 60.3 M 7 Gujarati 46,091,617 4.48% 40,673,814 4.85% 46.1 M 8 Kannada 37,924,011