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States of India by Urdu speakers

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As per Government of India census data of 2011, the total number of Urdu speakers in the Republic of India were 62,772,631.[1][2] According to the census guidelines, "Urdu" does not broadly refer to the Hindustani language, but the literary-register of the macrolanguage, hence accounting Hindi as a separate language.

Urdu is officially recognised in India and has official status in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to which the language has remained deeply attached through its medieval history of Muslim sultanates and empires and the Indian states and union territories of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,[3] Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir.

Regional distribution

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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]

Administrative divisions Urdu speakers
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
  1. ^ Telangana state was created after 2011 census, hence separate numbers are not available.

For census data of 1991:GOI census 1991: DISTRIBUTION OF 10,000 PERSONS BY LANGUAGE - INDIA, STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES - 1991

Speaker strength

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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

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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[citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ http://censusindia.gov.in/ [dead link‍]
  2. ^ SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH - 2001
  3. ^ "Urdu in Bihar". Language in India. Retrieved 17 May 2008.
  4. ^ [1][dead link‍]
  5. ^ GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE SPEAKERS' STRENGTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES -1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001 Archived 2009-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/PCA_Highlights/pca_highlights_file/India/Chapter-1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ [2][dead link‍]
  8. ^ GOI census 2001: COMPARATIVE RANKING OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES IN DESCENDING ORDER OF SPEAKERS' STRENGTH-1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001
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