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Official language of Indian state of Maharashtra, Marathi ranked
fourth among Indian languages by number of native speakers. In
India it is spoken in Maharashtra, parts of Goa, Gujarat,
Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu,
Dadra-Nagar-Haveli and Daman-Diu. Worldwide there are about 90
million fluent speakers of Marathi, out of which 70 million are
native speakers and 20 millions are second language speakers. |
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