How Hindi's growth will lead to decline in Tamil, Kannada speakers

By 2031 more than half of India's population will be Hindi speakers while share of all other language speakers will decline

Home Minister Amit Shah might well have kicked up a storm by calling for wider adoption of Hindi, but the fact remains that demographic and linguistic changes unfolding in India would soon catapult Hindi as the dominant language in the country.  At present 44 per cent of India’s population call themselves Hindi speakers. Since 1971, no other language has grown faster than Hindi. Infact the average growth rate of Hindi speakers from 1971 to 2011 has been faster than the growth rate of India’s population. Projections show that if these demographic trends continue more than half of India’s population would