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- Delhi and Northern India have several states speaking Urdu, such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Jammu, and Kashmir. Some people also exist in South India but do not speak Urdu.
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Following is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Urdu census data with estimated 2001 speakers. [4]
[note 1] [13] [14] The vast majority of them are Muslims of the Hindi–Urdu Belt of northern India, [note 2] [15] [16] [17] followed by the Deccani people of the Deccan plateau in south-central India (who speak Deccani Urdu), most of the Muhajir people of Pakistan, Muslims in the Terai of Nepal, and Muslims of Old Dhaka in Bangladesh.
- Hindi Is Exploding
- Proportion of South Indian Language Speakers Falling
- Hindi Is Growing Even in South India
- Urdu Numbers Falling
- Bengali Spreading to South, West
- Assam’s Language Divide
- More Indians Are Speaking English
- Wild Cards: Sanskrit, Arabic and Pashto
Hindi is India’s most spoken language. It is one of two languages used by the Union government (the other being English). As a mother tongue, Hindi is found mainly in North India and Central India, although there are significant urban pockets of Hindi speakers in most states of the Union. Currently, nearly 44% of India speaks Hindi (this figure, ho...
While high population growth in North India has helped Hindi surge, lower population growth in the five Dravidian language-speaking states – Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana – has resulted in the proportion of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam falling. While Hindi grew by 161% between 1971 and 2011, for example, the fo...
In addition, growing migration from north to south has meant a greater presence of Hindi in the five southern states. In Tamil Nadu, for example, the proportion of Hindi speakers nearly doubled from 2001 to 2011. In some cases, like in Karnataka’s capital Bengaluru, this north to south migration has caused political ripples and resulted in an agita...
Only two scheduled languages have seen a fall in absolute numbers, Urdu and Konkani. There are 5,07,72,631 Urdu speakers in India, a fall of about 1.5% since 2001. Urdu speakers are spread across India but the language’s strongest presence is in the modern-day Hindi belt: the two largest Urdu-speaking states are Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. However, it...
As Hindi spreads to other states with migration, so does Bengali. While states bordering West Bengal and Bangladesh have always had a significant Bengali population, the 2011 census counted 4.4 lakh Bengalis in far-off Maharashtra and 2.2 lakh in Delhi. While numbers are small in the south, they are growing. In Kerala, the proportion of Bengali spe...
The sharpest linguistic divide in India possibly exists in Assam, where the National Register of Citizens – a project that aims to create a definitive list of citizens of the state and identify illegal immigrants – and a proposed citizenship law has dividedthe state’s Assamese and Bengali speakers. Assam is no stranger to linguistic conflict, a pat...
A carry over from the British Raj, English is the link-language between India’s various states and the language of its upper crust elite. However, in absolute numbers, there are a tiny number of people who speak the language as a mother tongue, with only the Anglo-Indian community historically identifying with it. In spite of that, English seems to...
Sanskrit is India’s smallest official language with 24,821 speakers. However, Arabic – with no official status – is double its size with 54,947 speakers. Since neither language has any active speakers in India, these numbers probably represent people who misreported their mother tongue given the high status Sanskrit and Arabic enjoy as liturgical t...
Feb 26, 2019 · Urdu is spoken by over 12% of the residents of Telangana while Telugu is used by 77% of the population. Urdu was Hyderabad’s official language before 1948, and since Telugu was not taught in schools, it became the language of the elites.
- Geoffrey Migiro
At one point, you mention Indian Muslims have kept Urdu free of Hindi influence while Indian Hindus haven't done the same for Hindu. That is a mis-characterization strictly in my opinion. Hindi is spoken only in North India. South Indian Muslims hardly had any role to play. Even in North India, most Indian Muslims are hardly learning Urdu now.
How is it determined whether a certain dialect of Hindustani is considered Urdu or not? To me it seems doubtful that so many people in the Dravidian south speak Urdu natively, only because the official language was changed to Urdu/Hindustani in the late 19th century.
Similarly, the Urdu spoken in India can also be distinguished into many dialects such as the Standard Urdu of Lucknow and Delhi, as well as the Dakhni of South India. [ 128 ] [ 61 ] Because of Urdu's similarity to Hindi , speakers of the two languages can easily understand one another if both sides refrain from using literary vocabulary.
