Compare:
| Bengali | Gujarati | Hindi | Tamil | Telugu | ||
| Language Family and Writing System | ||||||
| Writing System | Bengali | Gujarati | Devangari | Tamil | Telugu | |
| Script(s) Used | (ba N La ) | (gujar T ) | (hind ) | (tamil ) | (telugu) | |
| Family | Indo-european | Indo-european | Indo-european | Dravidian | Dravidian | |
| Subgroup | Indo-aryan | Indo-aryan | Indo-aryan | Southern | South-central | |
| 3 Letter Code | Ben | Guj | Hin | Tam | Tel | |
| Number of Speakers | ||||||
| Number of Native speakers (millions) | 189 million |
44 million |
182 million |
63.1 million |
66.4 million |
|
| Native Speakers as % of World | 4.1 % |
1 % |
3.9 % |
1.4 % |
1.4 % |
|
| Total Number of Speakers (millions) | 250 million |
46.1 million |
490 million |
68 million |
74 million |
|
| Total Speakers as % of World | 3.3 % |
0.6 % |
6.4 % |
0.9 % |
1 % |
|
| Language Systems | ||||||
| Noun declensions | None | Six Cases | Two Cases | Many Cases | Six Cases | |
| Sequence | Sov | Sov | Sov | Sov | Sov | |
| Tonal | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Agglutinative language | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Geographic Distribution | ||||||
| Official language in |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Official Language of United Nations | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Countries Spoken In | Bangladesh, Nepal, India, United Kingdom, United States, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Myanmar, Canada, Pakistan | India, Pakistan, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Fiji, Canada, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Portugal, Panama, Malaysia, Singapore | India, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, United States, Canada, Nepal | Sri Lanka, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Mauritius, South Africa | India, Singapore | |
| No. of Countries Spoken In | 13 |
20 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
|
Bangladesh
Singapore