As per the latest 2011 Census of Languages in India, there are an estimated 24,82,089 speakers. According to the 2001 Census of Languages in India, there were 22,67,314 Garhwali language speakers, while Ethnologue gave a much larger figure of 29,20,000 Garhwali language speakers in a 2005 report. It is difficult to estimate the exact number of Garhwali speakers, as different agencies give different accounts of this number. According to various estimates, there are at least 2.5 million Garhwali migrants living in Delhi and the National Capital Region. Garhwali is also spoken by Garhwali migrants to other parts of India including Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh. Garhwali is spoken primarily by people in Tehri Garhwal, Pauri Garhwal, Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Dehradun districts of Garhwal division in the state of Uttarakhand.
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