Hindi

Number of Speakers: 609 million 

Bengali

Number of Speakers: 273 million 

Urdu

Number of Speakers: 232 million 

Marathi

Number of Speakers: 99 million 

Telugu

Number of Speakers: 96 million 

Tamil

Number of Speakers: 87 million 

Gujarati

Number of Speakers: 60 million 

Kannada

Number of Speakers: 59 million 

Punjabi

Number of Speakers: 52 million 

Odia

Number of Speakers:  50 million