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Telugu speakers top south Indian population in Assam
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- The number of Telugu speaking people in Assam is almost twice that of the combined number of those who speak three other major south India languages – Malayalam, Tamil and Kannada in that order, linguistic data from the 2011 census presented in the Assembly has revealed
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(1) Hindi speakers are the third largest linguistic group behind the Assamese and Bengali people. The Hindi speakers, comprising 6.73% of the population, had 21 lakh people. They outnumbered the Bodo speakers by 6.85 lakh.
(2) People belonging to 116 linguistic groups, 32 OBCs, 29 Scheduled Tribes and 16 Scheduled Castes live in the State.
(3) The Assamese speakers accounting for 48% of the State’s population led the linguistic list with 1.51 crore people, followed by the Bengali speakers with 90.24 lakh people (38% of the total population of 3.1 crore).
(4) The Telugus led the table with 26,630 people, followed by 5,768 Malayalis, 5,229 Tamils and 2,597 Kannadigas.
Sources
The Hindu