Editing Mumbai (section)

=== Language ===
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|caption = Languages in Mumbai (2011)<ref name="census2011-langreport">{{cite web |title=Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Maharashtra (Town level) |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10253/download/13365/DDW-C16-TOWN-STMT-MDDS-2700.XLSX |website=censusindia.gov.in |publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]] |access-date=2 January 2024 |archive-date=5 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005055334/https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10253/download/13365/DDW-C16-TOWN-STMT-MDDS-2700.XLSX |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=C-16 Population By Mother Tongue |url=http://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-2700.XLSX |website=censusindia.gov.in |access-date=16 March 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224105547/https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-2700.XLSX |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mumbai's growing Hindi heartland |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbais-growing-hindi-heartland-demographic-changes-5577879/ |website=Indian Express |date=11 February 2019 |access-date=16 March 2020 |archive-date=26 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226014052/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbais-growing-hindi-heartland-demographic-changes-5577879/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|label1 = [[Marathi language|Marathi]] |value1 = 35.40 |color1 = red
|label2 = [[Hindi]] |value2 = 24.78 |color2 = orange
|label3 = [[Urdu]] |value3 = 11.73 |color3 = green
|label4 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] |value4 = 11.42 |color4 = lightblue
|label5 = [[Tamil language|Tamil]] |value5 = 2.37 |color5 = royalblue
|label6 = [[Marwari language|Marwari]] |value6 = 1.85 |color6 = maroon
|label7 = [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]] |value7 = 1.69 |color7 = gold
|label8 = [[Telugu language|Telugu]] |value8 = 1.59 |color8 = steelblue
|label9 = [[Konkani language|Konkani]] |value9 = 1.56 |color9 = salmon
|label10 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]] |value10 = 1.14 |color10 = orchid
|label11 = [[Malayalam]] |value11 = 0.97 |color11 = cornflowerblue
|label12 = Others |value12 = 5.50 |color12 = grey
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|caption = Languages in Bombay City and Aden (1891).<ref>{{cite book |last= Drew|first= W.W.|author-link= |date= 1892|title= Census of India, 1891. Vol. VIII, Bombay and its feudatories. Part II, Imperial tables|url= |location= |publisher= Central Government Press|pages= 109–11|isbn=}}</ref>
|label1 = [[Marathi language|Marathi]] |value1 = 53.51 |color1 = red
|label7 = [[Hindi]] |value7 = 0.94 |color7 = orange
|label3 = [[Urdu]] |value3 = 12.19 |color3 = green
|label2 = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] |value2 = 22.73 |color2 = lightblue
|label4 = [[Kutchi language|Kacchi]] |value4 = 5.837 |color4 = dodgerblue
|label6 = [[Marwari language|Marwari]] |value6 = 1.72 |color6 = maroon
|label8 = [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]] |value8 = 0.37 |color8 = darkblue
|label9 = [[Kannada language|Kannada]] |value9 = 0.18 |color9 = steelblue
|label5 = [[Konkani language|Konkani]] (including Goan) |value5 = 2.31 |color5 = salmon
|label10 = [[Balochi language|Balochi]] |value10 = 0.03|color10 = orchid
|label11 = Others |value11 = 0.19 |color11 = grey
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[[Marathi language|Marathi]] is the official and working language of the bureaucracy along with [[English language|English]]. Mumbai has a large polyglot population like all other [[Status of Indian cities|metropolitan cities]] of India. Sixteen major [[languages of India]] are spoken in Mumbai, with the most common being [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and its dialect [[East Indian language|East Indian]]. Marathi, and its dialect, as a single language is spoken by 35.30% of the population around 4,396,870 people.<ref>{{cite web |title=51st Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India |url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |website=nclm.nic.in |publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]] |date=15 July 2015 |access-date=15 February 2018 |page=152 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216025959/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2018}}</ref> Hindi is spoken by 25.90% of the population around 3,582,719 people, making it the second largest dominant language in Mumbai. Many Hindi speakers are workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who migrate seasonally to Mumbai to work as labourers. [[Urdu]] and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] are spoken by 11.73% and 11.45% respectively.<ref name="census2011-langreport"/><ref>{{harvnb|Pai|2005|p=1804}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=51st Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India |url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |website=nclm.nic.in |publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]] |date=15 July 2015 |access-date=15 February 2018 |page=152 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216025959/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2018}}</ref>

[[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Marwari language|Marwari]], [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Malayalam]] are other minority languages spoken by a significant number of people in Mumbai.<ref name="census2011-langreport"/>

English is extensively spoken and is the principal language of the city's [[White-collar worker|white collar]] workforce. A colloquial form of Hindi, known as ''[[Bombay Hindi|Bambaiya]]'' – a blend of Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, [[Konkani language|Konkani]], [[Urdu]], [[Indian English]] and some invented words – is spoken on the streets.<ref>{{harvnb|O'Brien|2003|p=141}}</ref>

In the Suburbs, Marathi is spoken by 36.78% of the population and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] by 31.21%.<ref>{{cite web |title=51st Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India |url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |website=nclm.nic.in |publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]] |date=15 July 2015 |access-date=15 February 2018 |page=152 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216025959/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM51stReport.pdf |archive-date=16 February 2018}}</ref>