| Family-wise Grouping of Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Languages in India (As per 1991, 2001 and 2011 Census) | |||||||||
| Language Families | As per 1991 Census | As per 2001 Census | As Per 2011 Census | ||||||
| Number of Languages | Persons who Returned the Languages as their Mother Tongue | Percentage to Total Population | Number of Languages | Persons who Returned the Languages as their Mother Tongue | Percentage to Total Population | Number of Languages | Persons who Returned the Languages as their Mother Tongue | Percentage to Total Population | |
| 1. Indo-European | |||||||||
| (a) Indo-Aryan | |||||||||
| (b) Iranian | |||||||||
| (c) Germanic | |||||||||
| 2. Dravidian | |||||||||
| 3. Austro-Asiatic | |||||||||
| 4. Tibeto-Burmese | |||||||||
| 5. Semito-Hamitic | |||||||||
| Total | |||||||||
