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India had 640,930 villages in 2011 (census) & this has now increased to 693,042 villages (Min of Panchayat Raj, 2026). Of these, 255,146 are Gram Panchayats .

The Multilingualism data ( Census 2011) for Rural India was only released as an aggregated State/UT-Rural total for all 121 languages ( with more than 10,000 speakers in India). The Village level multilingualism data is not in the public domain though it can be estimated on the basis of respective village's proximity to the 7933 Statutory/Census towns.

The Language % in the Table below shows the " Percentage of the State/UT's Total Villages which have at least some respective Mother-Tongue speakers ( from the 121 Primary Indian Languages). Do note that the % here is NOT the " Percent of the State/UT's Total Rural Population who speak that Language".

No.	States/Uts	Assamese	Bengali	Hindi	Punjabi	Kannada	Malayalam	Marathi	Gujarati	Odia	Urdu	Tamil	Telugu	English	Other MT	Villages (Language # )	Gram Panchayats ( #)
1	Andhra Pradesh		0%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	88%		1%	20,863	13,326
2	Arunachal Pradesh	3%	6%	5%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	85%	5,849	2,108
3	Assam	49%	28%	6%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		16%	28,956	2,192
4	Bihar		0%	77%					0%		8%				14%	49,392	8,052
5	Chhattisgarh	0%	0%	84%	0%		0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	0%	0%		12%	20,666	11,691
6	Goa	0%	0%	5%	0%	3%	0%	13%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	77%	435	191
7	Gujarat		0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	94%	0%	0%	0%	0%		5%	19,886	14,621
8	Haryana	0%	0%	88%	10%		0%	0%	0%	0%	2%	0%	0%		0%	7,593	6,230
9	Himachal Pradesh	0%	0%	86%	9%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	5%	21,763	3,615
10	Jharkhand		10%	60%	0%			0%	0%	1%	4%		0%		24%	32,944	4,346
11	Karnataka	0%	0%	3%		78%	0%	3%	0%	0%	6%	0%	4%		4%	30,774	5,949
12	Kerala	0%	0%	0%		0%	97%	0%		0%	0%	2%	0%	0%	1%	1,829	941
13	Madhya Pradesh		0%	88%	0%		0%	1%	0%	0%	0%		0%		10%	57,503	23,011
14	Maharashtra		0%	7%	0%	0%	0%	81%	0%	0%	3%	0%	0%		8%	45,031	28,002
15	Manipur	0%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	98%	3,853	162
16	Meghalaya	1%	7%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		90%	7,201	0
17	Mizoram	0%	18%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%		81%	887	0
18	Nagaland	0%	2%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	96%	1,550	0
19	Odisha		1%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	84%	1%	0%	1%		11%	51,800	6,783
20	Punjab		0%	4%	95%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		0%	15,093	13,236
21	Rajasthan		0%	89%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%			0%	7%	52,262	11,070
22	Sikkim	0%	0%	4%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	94%	495	199
23	Tamil Nadu		0%	0%		2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	92%	5%	0%	0%	20,147	12,480
24	Telangana		0%	4%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	4%	0%	88%		1%	16,700	12,760
25	Tripura	0%	56%	2%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		40%	1,248	607
26	Uttar Pradesh		0%	97%	0%						3%				0%	110,274	57,695
27	Uttarakhand	0%	1%	91%	3%		0%	0%	0%	0%	3%	0%	0%	0%	2%	17,346	7,817
28	West Bengal	0%	90%	3%	0%			0%	0%	0%	0%		0%		6%	41,416	3,339
29	Andaman and Nicobar	0%	38%	18%	0%	0%	6%	0%	0%	0%	0%	10%	7%	0%	21%	561	71
30	Chandigarh	0%	0%	70%	25%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%		3%	0	0
31	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	0%	0%	11%	0%	0%	0%	2%	33%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	52%	118	50
32	Jammu and Kashmir	0%	0%	25%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	74%	7,914	4,291
33	Ladakh	0%	0%	25%	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	74%	272	193
34	Lakshadweep		0%	0%		0%	98%	0%	0%	0%		1%	0%		0%	27	10
35	National Capital Territory of Delhi	0%	0%	96%	1%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	222	0
36	Puducherry		0%	0%		0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	99%	0%		0%	172	108