Indian Language Profile

District wise Language Profile

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We found 92 mother tongues which are spoken in Dakshina Kannada as per census of India report 2011.
Out of 92, only 10 mother tongue is spoken by more than 0.5% of the total population of the district. The list of languages spoken by more than 0.5% of the total population 1728145 along with their percentage is given in the table below.

SL	Languages	Population	Percentage
1	Tulu	1014638	48.56
2	Others	337868	16.17
3	Malayalam	208232	9.96
4	Konkani	204939	9.81
5	Kannada	192810	9.23
6	Urdu	33045	1.58
7	Tamil	23583	1.13
8	Marathi	18585	0.89
9	Are	17227	0.82
10	Hindi	15086	0.72

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11	Telugu	7931	0.38
12	Gujarati	3068	0.15
13	Bengali	2033	0.10
14	Lamani/Lambadi	1239	0.06
15	Odia	1134	0.05
16	Kudubi/Kudumbi	983	0.05
17	Kuruba/Kurumba	916	0.04
18	Rajasthani	902	0.04
19	Nepali	740	0.04
20	Kodava	697	0.03
21	Bhojpuri	551	0.03
22	Marwari	549	0.03
23	English	480	0.02
24	Coorgi/Kodagu	299	0.01
25	Assamese	265	0.01
26	Punjabi	233	0.01
27	Arabic/Arbi	219	0.01
28	Yerava	151	0.01
29	Nawait	136	0.01
30	Tibetan	121	0.01
31	Manipuri	113	0.01
32	Sanskrit	94	0.00
33	Kachchhi	92	0.00
34	Banjari	81	0.00
35	Pnar/Synteng	56	0.00
36	Santali	54	0.00
37	Kurukh/Oraon	48	0.00
38	Maithili	42	0.00
39	Kashmiri	34	0.00
40	Sindhi	28	0.00
41	Khasi	26	0.00
42	Mundari	26	0.00
43	Chhattisgarhi	24	0.00
44	Lushai/Mizo	24	0.00
45	Saurashtra/Saurashtri	22	0.00
46	Sadan/Sadri	21	0.00
47	Garhwali	17	0.00
48	Bhansari	16	0.00
49	Haryanvi	13	0.00
50	Adi	12	0.00
51	Kom	12	0.00
52	Kharia	11	0.00
53	Surjapuri	10	0.00
54	Munda	10	0.00
55	Dogri	6	0.00
56	Dhundhari	6	0.00
57	Kokna/Kokni/Kukna	6	0.00
58	Karbi/Mikir	6	0.00
59	Bodo/Boro	5	0.00
60	Bagheli/Baghel Khandi	5	0.00
61	Angami	5	0.00
62	Mao	5	0.00
63	Korava	5	0.00
64	Brajbhasha	4	0.00
65	Nagpuria	4	0.00
66	Sema	4	0.00
67	Bharmauri/Gaddi	3	0.00
68	Badaga	3	0.00
69	Garo	3	0.00
70	Rongmei	3	0.00
71	Kurmali Thar	2	0.00
72	Thati	2	0.00
73	Bhatri	2	0.00
74	Afghani/Kabuli/Pashto	2	0.00
75	Chakru/Chokri	2	0.00
76	Koraku	2	0.00
77	Kuki	2	0.00
78	Lotha	2	0.00
79	Bundeli/Bundel khandi	1	0.00
80	Adi Miniyong/Miniyong	1	0.00
81	Ao	1	0.00
82	Bhilali	1	0.00
83	Bhili/Bhilodi	1	0.00
84	Chodhari	1	0.00
85	Gondi	1	0.00
86	Kisan	1	0.00
87	Maram	1	0.00
88	Pochury	1	0.00
89	Tangkhul	1	0.00
90	Zou	1	0.00
91	Haijong/Hajong	1	0.00
92	Pawari/Powari	1	0.00
Total		2089649