हमने भारत के बीस सबसे बड़े अख़बार लिए और उनके पाठकों की भाषा के अनुसार गणना की। भारत में अख़बार पढ़ने वालों के आँकड़े से अंग्रेज़ी का पाँचवे नम्बर पर स्थान है।
| पाठक (करोड़ों में) | |||
| हिन्दी | 6.0429 | 44% | Hindi |
| तेलुगु | 1.5509 | 11% | Telugu |
| मलयालम | 1.42 | 10% | Malayalam |
| गुजराती | 1.1833 | 9% | Gujarati |
| आंग्रेज़ी | 1.1588 | 8% | English |
| मराठी | 0.9308 | 7% | Marathi |
| तमिल | 0.8156 | 6% | Tamil |
| बंगाली | 0.5515 | 4% | Bengali |
We took the top twenty newspapers of India and tabulated their readership by language. English comes at fifth place yet linguistic apartheid in India privileges it as the only language of the High Courts and Supreme Court. Obviously newspaper readership is only a sampling of the literate population by language preference. Counting the non-literate would skew the ratio even more against English.
बीस अख़बारों का विवरण नीचे है।
| अंक Rank | अख़बार Newspaper | भाषा Language | पाठक (2013) Readership (2013) |
| 1 | Dainik Jagran (दैनिक जागरण) | Hindi | 15.526 |
| 2 | Hindustan (हिन्दुस्तान) | Hindi | 14.245 |
| 3 | Dainik Bhaskar (दैनिक भास्कर) | Hindi | 12.855 |
| 4 | Malayala Manorama (മലയാള മനോരമ) | Malayalam | 8.565 |
| 5 | Daily Thanthi (தினத்தந்தி) | Tamil | 8.156 |
| 6 | Rajasthan Patrika | Hindi | 7.665 |
| 7 | Times of India | English | 7.253 |
| 8 | Eenadu (ఈనాడు) | Telugu | 5.998 |
| 9 | Mathrubhumi (മാതൃഭൂമി) | Malayalam | 5.635 |
| 10 | Lokmat | Marathi | 5.601 |
| 11 | Ananda Bazar Patrika (আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা) | Bengali | 5.515 |
| 12 | Amar Ujala | Hindi | 5.51 |
| 13 | Andhra Jyothy (ఆంధ్ర జ్యోతి) | Telugu | 4.88 |
| 14 | Sakshi | Telugu | 4.631 |
| 15 | Patrika | Hindi | 4.628 |
| 16 | Gujarat Samachar (ગુજરાત સમાચાર) | Gujarati | 4.339 |
| 17 | Hindustan Times | English | 4.335 |
| 18 | Divya Bhaskar | Gujarati | 3.77 |
| 19 | Sandesh | Gujarati | 3.724 |
| 20 | Daily Sakal (सकाळ) | Marathi | 3.707 |