In India there are 52,83,47,193 native Hindi speakers, which includes those who speak different forms and dialects of Hindi like Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Bundelkhandi, Khari Boli, Magadhi, Marwari, amongst others[1]. Since the census recorded in 1971, the percentage of Hindi speakers in India has gone up from 36.99 to 43.63 in 2011, the last conducted census. It is interesting to note that the percentage of speakers of other regional languages like Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and others has depreciated since 1971.[2] The Government of India in late 20th century took efforts to distinguish various languages from each other. Grierson was appointed to compile, edit and conduct the Linguistic Survey of India.
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