Indian Language Profile

State wise Language Profile

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We found 107 mother tongues which are spoken in SIKKIM as per census of India report 2011.
Out of 107, 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 581781 along with their percentage is given in the table below.

SL	Languages	Population	Percentage
1	Nepali	382171	62.59
2	Bhotia	41844	6.85
3	Lepcha	38313	6.27
4	Limbu	36120	5.92
5	Hindi	34052	5.58
6	Sherpa	13681	2.24
7	Tamang	11734	1.92
8	Others	10914	1.79
9	Bhojpuri	9948	1.63
10	Rai	7048	1.15
11	Bengali	6870	1.13

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12	Tibetan	2761	0.45
13	Urdu	1986	0.33
14	Punjabi	1945	0.32
15	Marwari	1459	0.24
16	Marathi	1108	0.18
17	Telugu	1032	0.17
18	Odia	976	0.16
19	Malayalam	899	0.15
20	Assamese	829	0.14
21	Tamil	762	0.12
22	Maithili	582	0.10
23	Manipuri	383	0.06
24	Kannada	366	0.06
25	Santali	309	0.05
26	Dogri	261	0.04
27	Surjapuri	212	0.03
28	Gujarati	195	0.03
29	Sadan/Sadri	148	0.02
30	Rajasthani	125	0.02
31	Haryanvi	124	0.02
32	English	112	0.02
33	Garhwali	92	0.02
34	Kumauni	90	0.01
35	Monpa	89	0.01
36	Kurukh/Oraon	85	0.01
37	Ladakhi	80	0.01
38	Khortha/Khotta	78	0.01
39	Bodo/Boro	65	0.01
40	Rajbangsi	57	0.01
41	Haijong/Hajong	51	0.01
42	Lushai/Mizo	49	0.01
43	Magadhi/Magahi	43	0.01
44	Pahari	42	0.01
45	Munda	34	0.01
46	Koda/Kora	33	0.01
47	Kashmiri	30	0.00
48	Nicobarese	26	0.00
49	Konkani	25	0.00
50	Mewari	24	0.00
51	Khasi	23	0.00
52	Rabha	19	0.00
53	Lyngngam	19	0.00
54	Kharia	16	0.00
55	Mundari	16	0.00
56	Garo	14	0.00
57	Awadhi	13	0.00
58	Tangkhul	12	0.00
59	Kokbarak	12	0.00
60	Paite	10	0.00
61	Thati	9	0.00
62	Arabic/Arbi	9	0.00
63	Brajbhasha	9	0.00
64	Thado	9	0.00
65	Karbi/Mikir	8	0.00
66	Lotha	7	0.00
67	Rongmei	7	0.00
68	Mao	6	0.00
69	Chang	6	0.00
70	Bundeli/Bundel khandi	6	0.00
71	Dhundhari	6	0.00
72	Talgalo	5	0.00
73	Ao	5	0.00
74	Lalung	5	0.00
75	Tharu	5	0.00
76	Pnar/Synteng	5	0.00
77	Malvi	5	0.00
78	Kuki	4	0.00
79	Hmar	3	0.00
80	Chhattisgarhi	3	0.00
81	Kabui	3	0.00
82	Maram	2	0.00
83	Vaiphei	2	0.00
84	Chakma	2	0.00
85	Kachchhi	2	0.00
86	Liangmei	2	0.00
87	Kangri	2	0.00
88	Nagpuria	2	0.00
89	Bishnupriya Manipuri/Manipuri Bishnupriya	2	0.00
90	Kinnauri	2	0.00
91	Tripuri	2	0.00
92	Bhuiya/Bhuyan[Ori]	1	0.00
93	Khezha	1	0.00
94	Bharmauri/Gaddi	1	0.00
95	Kurmali Thar	1	0.00
96	Miri/Mishing	1	0.00
97	Wancho	1	0.00
98	Gangte	1	0.00
99	Adi	1	0.00
100	Angami	1	0.00
101	Apatani	1	0.00
102	Tagin	1	0.00
103	Sema	1	0.00
104	Dimasa	1	0.00
105	Nissi/Dafla	1	0.00
106	Mahili	1	0.00
107	Ahirani	1	0.00
Total		610577