Editing Marathi language (section)

== Geographic distribution ==
Marathi is primarily spoken in [[Maharashtra]]<ref name="eth" /> and parts of neighbouring states of [[Gujarat]] (majorly in [[Vadodara]], and among a small number of population in [[Surat]]), [[Madhya Pradesh]] (in the districts of [[Burhanpur district|Burhanpur]], [[Betul district|Betul]], [[Chhindwara district|Chhindwara]] and [[Balaghat district|Balaghat]]), [[Goa]], [[Chhattisgarh]], [[Tamil Nadu]] (in [[Thanjavur]]) and [[Karnataka]] (in the districts of [[Belagavi district|Belagavi]], [[Uttara Kannada|Karwar]], [[Bagalkote district|Bagalkote]], [[Vijayapura district|Vijayapura]], [[Kalaburagi district|Kalaburagi]] and [[Bidar district|Bidar]]), [[Telangana]], union-territories of [[Daman and Diu]] and [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli]].<ref name="dadra">[http://dnh.nic.in/deptdoc/vguide.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107091953/http://dnh.nic.in/deptdoc/vguide.pdf|date=7 November 2012}}</ref><ref name="C-16 Population By Mother Tongue">{{cite web |title=C-16 Population By Mother Tongue |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-16.html |website=censusindia.gov.in |access-date=3 April 2021}}</ref> The former Maratha ruled cities of [[Baroda]], [[Indore]], [[Gwalior]], [[Jabalpur]], and [[Thanjavur|Tanjore]] have had sizeable Marathi-speaking populations for centuries.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} Marathi is also spoken by [[Marathi people|Maharashtrian]] migrants to other parts of India and overseas.<ref name="eth">{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mar|title=Marathi|website=ethnologue.com}}</ref> For instance, the people from western India who emigrated to Mauritius in the early 19th century also speak Marathi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mmcct.mu/userfiles/file/pdf/MARATHI%20REPORT%20AS%20AT%20090112final.pdf|title=Marathi Culture, History and Heritage in Mauritius|access-date=22 January 2020}}</ref>

[[File:Marathi Speaker Comparison Plain File.jpg|alt=Number of Marathi speakers is more than combined population of Germany and Netherlands. |thumb|Poster showcasing comparison of Marathi language speakers with [[Demographics of Germany|Germany]] and [[Demography of the Netherlands|Netherlands]]. |290x290px]]

There were 83 million native Marathi speakers in India, according to the 2011 census, making it the third most spoken native language after Hindi and Bengali. Native Marathi speakers form 6.86% of India's population. Native speakers of Marathi formed 70.34% of the population in Maharashtra, 10.89% in Goa, 7.01% in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, 4.53% in Daman and Diu, 3.38% in Karnataka, 1.7% in Madhya Pradesh, and 1.52% in Gujarat.<ref name="auto1"/>

=== International ===
The following table is a list of the geographic distribution of Marathi speakers as it appears in the 2019 edition of [[SIL Ethnologue|''Ethnologue'']], a language reference published by [[SIL International]], which is based in the [[United States]].<ref name=":02">{{cite web|title=Summary by language size|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size|access-date=12 March 2019|website=Ethnologue|date=3 October 2018|language=en}} For items below #26, see individual ''Ethnologue'' entry for each language.</ref>
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|+International geographic distribution
as per [[SIL Ethnologue|''Ethnologue.'']]<ref>{{cite web|title=Marathi|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mar|access-date=14 June 2021|website=Ethnologue|language=en}}</ref>
!Country
!Speaker population
!Notes
|-
|{{AUS}}
|22,300
|2021 census
|-
|{{CAN}}
|19,600
|2021 census
|-
|{{OMN}}
|14,000 
|2020
|-
|{{ISR}}
|11,000
|Leclerc 2018a
|-
|{{flag|Mauritius}}
|17,000
|Leclerc 2018c
|-
|{{NZ}}
|4,770
|2018 census
|-
|{{flag|UK}}
|11,600
|2021 census
|-
|{{flag|USA}}
|147,000
|2021 census
|}