 According to the 2001 census, about 80 percent of the district's population speaks Marathi.Linguistic minorities with more than 100,000 native speakers are Hindi (including Hindi dialects, about 690,000 people), Urdu, Kannada and Telugu.Marwari (a Hindi dialect with Marathi influences), Gujarati, Malayalam (47,912), Tamil (47,504), Sindhi (40,602), Vadari (a Telugu dialect; 35.282), Lamani (a Hindi dialect; 30,604), Panjabi (28,500), Bengali (22,628) and Konkani (19,594) are spoken by over 10,000 people.