A depiction of Durga (the Hindu goddess of power and destroyer of evil) at Durga temple, Burdwan, West Bengal
A Kali Puja pandal with a replica of the Kalighat Kali Temple icon.
A Bengali Hindu wedding in Kolkata, West Bengal
Languages spoken in Kolkata city (2011 census)[1]
Bengali (61.45%)
Hindi (22.84%)
Urdu (13.03%)
Odia (0.58%)
Gujarati (0.57%)
Punjabi (0.35%)
English (0.2%)
Nepali (0.18%)
Others (0.8%)
Kolkata city linguistic diversity as per (2011 census)[2]
Languages
Population
Bengali
2,763,291
Hindi
1,027,173
Urdu
586,234
Odia
26,158
Gujarati
25,667
Punjabi
15,913
English
8,900
Nepali
8,089
Sindhi
3,724
Others
40,445
Total
4,496,694
Kolkata, India, is largely inhabited by the ethnic community of the native Bengalis (both Ghoti and Bangal origin) respectively. According to a report by the Indian Statistical Institute owned by the Government of India, the Kolkata city had a population of 4.5 million as of 2011 out of which the population of native Bengalis in Kolkata is almost 62% which comprised the majority of the city's population, whereas ethnic groups like Marwaris, Biharis and Urdu-speaking Muslims together forming 36% of the population which comes under the category of large minorities. Other Various micro-minority communities of Kolkata include as far as concerned follows -: Pathans, Marathis, Odias, Gujaratis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Punjabis, Nepalis, Telugus, Tamils, Anglo-Indians, Iraqis, Jews, Armenians, Tibetans, Greeks, Parsis, Chinese, and Iraqis etc.
^"India Census 2011 : C-16 Population By Mother Tongue" (XLDX). Censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
^2011 censuscensusindia.gov.in Archived 15 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine
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