
The non-scheduled languages are 99 in 2011 against 100 in 2001. The same 22 languages are maintained in 2011 census also. The number of scheduled languages was 22 at the time of presentation of the 2001.

The 121 languages are presented in two parts - languages included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution, comprising 22 languages and languages not included in the Eighth Schedule, comprising of 99 languages plus the category “total of other languages”, which includes all other languages and mother tongues which returned less than 10,000 speakers each at the all-India level or were not identifiable on the basis of the linguistic information available.
