Kashmiri language is the official language as well as the predominantly spoken language of Jammu and Kashmir, besides being one of the scheduled languages of India.
Just after Hindi, Kashmiri is the second fastest growing language of India, followed by Meitei (Manipuri) as well as Gujarati in the third place, and Bengali in the fourth place, according to the 2011 census of India.[1]
This is a list of States and Union Territories of India by speakers of Kashmiri according to the 2011 census.[2][3][a]
| Rank | State | Kashmiri speakers |
|---|---|---|
| — | India | 6,797,587 |
| 1 | Jammu and Kashmir (state)[b] | 6,680,837 |
| 2 | Himachal Pradesh | 57,050 |
| 3 | Delhi | 18,122 |
| 4 | Maharashtra | 8,274 |
| 5 | Haryana | 6,225 |
| 6 | Uttar Pradesh | 6,123 |
| 7 | Rajasthan | 4,164 |
| 8 | Karnataka | 3,388 |
| 9 | Punjab | 2,913 |
| 10 | Uttarakhand | 1,770 |
| 11 | Chandigarh | 1,330 |
| 12 | Gujarat | 1,111 |
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh | 1,050 |
| 14 | Bihar | 986 |
| 15 | Kerala | 651 |
| 16 | West Bengal | 624 |
| 17 | Andhra Pradesh (1956–2014)[c] | 576 |
| 18 | Tamil Nadu | 453 |
| 19 | Goa | 372 |
| 20 | Assam | 357 |
| 21 | Jharkhand | 296 |
| 22 | Chhattisgarh | 171 |
| 23 | Odisha | 140 |
| 24 | Arunachal Pradesh | 108 |
| 25 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 34 |
| 26 | Sikkim | 30 |
| 27 | Puducherry | 30 |
| 28 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 14 |