States of India by Urdu speakers
As per
as a separate language.Urdu is
.Regional distribution
Following is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Urdu census data with estimated 2001 speakers.[4]
Administrative divisions | Urdu speakers | ||
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Total | Male | Female | |
States | |||
Uttar Pradesh | 38,272,080 | 20,947,596 | 19,324,484 |
Bihar | 17,757,548 | 8,891,011 | 8,566,537 |
Maharashtra | 6,895,501 | 3,247,547 | 3,247,954 |
Telangana & Andhra Pradesh [i] | 5,539,910 | 3,430,719 | 2,109,191 |
Jharkhand | 3,324,411 | 2,206,458 | 1,117,953 |
Madhya Pradesh | 3,186,364 | 2,180,019 | 1,006,345 |
Karnataka | 2,674,333 | 1,373,117 | 1,301,216 |
West Bengal | 1,653,739 | 914,087 | 739,652 |
Rajasthan | 1,462,983 | 781,000 | 681,002 |
Gujarat | 1,350,630 | 687,723 | 663,907 |
Odisha | 899,299 | 411,692 | 288,817 |
Tamil Nadu | 511,299 | 273,914 | 232,385 |
Uttarakhand | 497,081 | 265,152 | 231,929 |
Haryana | 260,687 | 140,038 | 120,649 |
Chhattisgarh | 88,008 | 46,670 | 41,338 |
Goa | 54,163 | 28,306 | 25,857 |
Punjab |
27,660 | 16,971 | 10,689 |
Kerala | 51,492 | 26,703 | 25,789 |
Himachal Pradesh | 4,787 | 3,146 | 1,641 |
Assam | 4,715 | 2,821 | 1,894 |
Sikkim | 2,930 | 2,118 | 812 |
Meghalaya | 2,531 | 1,509 | 1,022 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 1,258 | 883 | 375 |
Manipur | 483 | 470 | 13 |
Tripura | 313 | 253 | 60 |
Mizoram | 98 | 84 | 14 |
Nagaland | 759 | 562 | 197 |
Union territories | |||
Delhi | 8,575,033 | 4,351,545 | 4,223,488 |
Jammu & Kashmir | 13,251 | 8,293 | 4,958 |
Chandigarh | 7,254 | 4,428 | 2,826 |
Puducherry | 7,092 | 3,450 | 3,642 |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands |
1,615 | 885 | 730 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli |
994 | 590 | 404 |
Daman & Diu |
574 | 388 | 186 |
Lakshadweep | 26 | 14 | 12 |
India | 85,061,078 | 46,837,143 | 45,698,968 |
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For census data of 1991:GOI census 1991: DISTRIBUTION OF 10,000 PERSONS BY LANGUAGE - INDIA, STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES - 1991
Speaker strength
Following is speaker's strength data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:[5][6]
Language | Persons who returned the language as their mother tongue[7] | Percentage to total population | ||||||||
1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | 1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |
Urdu | 28,620,895 | 34,941,435 | 43,406,932 | 51,536,111 | 50,772,631 | 5.22 | 5.25 | 5.18 | 5.01 | 4.19 |
Ranking
Following is ranking data of Urdu language for decades of 1971, 1981, 1991 & 2001:[8]
Urdu: its rank and percentage to total population | |||||||||
1971 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2011 | |||||
Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % | Rank | % |
6 | 5.22 | 5 | 5.25 | 6 | 5.18** | 6 | 5.01 | 7 | 4.19 |
"**" Census was not conducted in the former state of Jammu and Kashmir
See also
- States of India by urban population
- States of India by size of economy
- Muslims of Uttar Pradesh
References
- ^ http://censusindia.gov.in/ [dead link]
- ^ SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH - 2001
- ^ "Urdu in Bihar". Language in India. Retrieved 17 May 2008.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES -1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001 Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/PCA_Highlights/pca_highlights_file/India/Chapter-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ [2][dead link]
- ^ GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE RANKING OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH-1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001