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Most Linguistically Diverse
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- 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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