Indian Language Profile

District wise Language Profile

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We found 39 mother tongues which are spoken in Salem as per census of India report 2011.
Out of 39, only 5 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 3455187 along with their percentage is given in the table below.

SL	Languages	Population	Percentage
1	Tamil	3080945	88.48
2	Telugu	211878	6.08
3	Kannada	86484	2.48
4	Urdu	55032	1.58
5	Saurashtra/Saurashtri	20848	0.60

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6	Malayalam	9518	0.27
7	Hindi	8645	0.25
8	Marathi	3410	0.10
9	Lamani/Lambadi	1414	0.04
10	Marwari	692	0.02
11	Gujarati	630	0.02
12	Rajasthani	446	0.01
13	Sindhi	437	0.01
14	Odia	395	0.01
15	English	263	0.01
16	Bengali	223	0.01
17	Others	207	0.01
18	Nepali	123	0.00
19	Konkani	115	0.00
20	Punjabi	87	0.00
21	Badaga	37	0.00
22	Assamese	36	0.00
23	Bhojpuri	34	0.00
24	Sema	33	0.00
25	Arabic/Arbi	26	0.00
26	Tulu	25	0.00
27	Sadan/Sadri	16	0.00
28	Sanskrit	12	0.00
29	Manipuri	9	0.00
30	Kurukh/Oraon	7	0.00
31	Santali	7	0.00
32	Lushai/Mizo	6	0.00
33	Irula/Irular Mozhi	5	0.00
34	Kashmiri	3	0.00
35	Munda	3	0.00
36	Nissi/Dafla	2	0.00
37	Kuki	1	0.00
38	Mara	1	0.00
39	Tripuri	1	0.00
Total		3482056