TNPSC Thervupettagam

Most Linguistically Diverse

September 14 , 2021 1299 days 857 0
  • Bengaluru is the top district in India where the greatest number of languages are spoken.
  • With 107 languages, Bengaluru has a diverse set of languages spoken in the district including 22 scheduled and 84 non-scheduled languages.
  • In Bengaluru, 44.5 per cent of people speak Kannada, 15 per cent Tamil, 14 per cent Telugu, 12 per cent Urdu, 6 per cent Hindi and 3 per cent Malayalam.
  • The other districts where more than 100 languages are spoken is Dimapur in Nagaland with 103 languages and Sonitpur in Assam with 101 languages.
  • The least diverse districts included Yanam in Puducherry, Kaimur in Bihar, Kaushambi and Kanpur Dehat in Uttar Pradesh and Ariyalur in Tamil Nadu.
  • In these districts, less than 20 languages were spoken.
  • The data did not include dialects, but only scheduled and non-scheduled languages.

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