Most Common Spoken Languages in Inḍian States
Most Common Spoken Languages in Inḍian States
‘There are almost no native speakers of English (0.02%). Everyone speaks it as a second or third language
I would caution you from making a connection between mother tongue and first language. In big cities like Bangalore and Chennai, the rich and upper middle class usually send their children to English-medium schools, so their children often end up better at English than their mother tongue(they can speak both well, but reading and writing in their mother tongue is often poor since they don’t take it in school or only as a second language). However, even if they speak English fluently and are not as proficient in their mother tongue, they would never say English is their mother tongue’