STATEMENT - 7
GROWTH OF SCHEDULED LANGUAGES - 1971, 1981, 1991 AND 2001
Language	Persons who returned the langauge as their mother tongue				Decadal percentage increase
	1971	1981	1991	2001	1971-81	1981-91	1991-2001
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Assamese	8,959,558	**	13,079,696	13,168,484	**	**	0.68
Bengali	44,792,312	51,298,319	69,595,738	83,369,769	14.52	35.67	19.79
Bodo	556,576	**	1,221,881	1,350,478	**	**	10.52
Dogri	1,299,143	1,530,616	#	2,282,589	17.82	#	#
Gujarati	25,865,012	33,063,267	40,673,814	46,091,617	27.83	23.02	13.32
Hindi*	202,767,971	257,749,009	329,518,087	422,048,642	27.12	27.84	28.08
Kannada	21,710,649	25,697,146	32,753,676	37,924,011	18.36	27.46	15.79
Kashmiri	2,495,487	3,176,975	#	5,527,698	27.31	**	**
Konkani	1,508,432	1,570,108	1,760,607	2,489,015	4.09	12.13	41.37
Maithili	6,130,026	7,522,265	7,766,921	12,179,122	22.71	3.25	56.81
Malayalam	21,938,760	25,700,705	30,377,176	33,066,392	17.15	18.20	8.85
Manipuri $	791,714	901,407	1,270,216	1,466,705	13.86	40.91	15.47
Marathi	41,765,190	49,452,922	62,481,681	71,936,894	18.41	26.35	15.13
Nepali	1,419,835	1,360,636	2,076,645	2,871,749	-4.17	52.62	38.29
Oriya	19,863,198	23,021,528	28,061,313	33,017,446	15.90	21.89	17.66
Punjabi	14,108,443	19,611,199	23,378,744	29,102,477	39.00	19.21	24.48
Sanskrit	2,212	6,106	49,736	14,135	176.04	714.54	-71.58
Santali	3,786,899	4,332,511	5,216,325	6,469,600	14.41	20.40	24.03
Sindhi	1,676,875	2,044,389	2,122,848	2,535,485	21.92	3.84	19.44
Tamil	37,690,106	**	53,006,368	60,793,814	**	**	14.69
Telugu	44,756,923	50,624,611	66,017,615	74,002,856	13.11	30.41	12.10
Urdu	28,620,895	34,941,435	43,406,932	51,536,111	22.08	24.23	18.73
Note:
* For Hindi the published fiugres in 1971, 1981 and 1991 differ due to exclusion of Maithili figure from Hindi. Maithili is included in Scheduled Languages in 2001 following the 100th Amendment of the Constitution of India.
** Full figures for Tamil,  Assamese and Bodo for 1981 are not available as the census records for Tamil Nadu were lost due to floods and the 1981 census was not be conducted in Assam due to the disturbed conditions then prevailing there. Therefore, the decadal percentage increase of Tamil and Assamese and Bodo are not given.
# Full figures for Kashmiri and Dogri for 1991 are not available as the 1991 census was not conducted in Jammu & Kashmir due to disturbed conditions. Therefore, the decadal percentage increase of Kashmiri is not given.
$- Excludes figures of Paomata, Mao-Maram and Purul sub-divisions of Senapati district of Manipur for 2001.