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  1. $Title{Table 9.: Estimate of Number of Native Speakers of Principal Spoken Languages, 1983}
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  4.                                                      Percentage
  5.                                Native Speakers           of
  6. Language                        (in millions)        Population
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  9. Assamese ...............            12.6                 1.7
  10. Bengali ................            63.0                 8.5
  11. Gujarati ...............            36.0                 4.7
  12. Hindi ..................           224.0                29.5
  13. Kannada ................            30.0                 3.9
  14. Kashmiri ...............             3.4                 0.5
  15. Malayalam ..............            30.5                 4.0
  16. Marathi ................            58.5                 7.7
  17. Oriya ..................            27.5                 3.6
  18. Punjabi ................            23.4                 3.1
  19. Sindhi .................             2.2                0.28
  20. Tamil ..................            51.8                 6.8
  21. Telugu .................            60.9                 8.0
  22. Urdu ...................            37.0                 4.8
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  24. Source: Based on information supplied by the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington.
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