Hindi fastest growing language in India, finds 100 million new speakers

Hindi emerged as the fastest growing language in India at 25.19 per cent, adding close to a 100 million speakers between 2001-2011.
 
Kashmiri (22.97 per cent), Gujarati (20.4 per cent), Manipuri  (20.07 per cent), and Bengali (16.63 per cent) rank second, third and fourth on the list, respectively, according to new census  data. Hindi (520 million speakers) and Bengali (97 million speakers) remain the top two most spoken languages across the country.
 


There are now 260,000 people who deem English as their mother tongue; up from 226,000 in 2001, an increase of 14.67 per