Demographics
According to the 2006 Census, 44.16% of all Australians who were born in India were Hindu, so were 47.20% of those born in Fiji, 1.84% born in Indonesia, 3.42% from Malaysia, and 18.61% from Sri Lanka.
Less than 17% of the Australian Hindus use English as their home language. The number of Australian Hindus speaking various languages as their home language are:
- Total - 275,534
- Hindi - 81,892
- English - 39,800
- Tamil - 36,940
- Gujarati - 29,250
- Nepali - 21,766
- Telugu - 16,717
Other major languages spoken by Australian Hindus include: Punjabi - 9,442, Marathi - 7,774, Malayalam - 5,938, Bengali - 5,685, Kannada - 5,383, South Asian nfd - 3,531, Indo-Aryan nfd - 1,988, French - 1,180, Indonesian - 1,171, Konkani - 609, Fijian Hindustani - 572, Mauritian Creole - 514, Malay - 436, Tulu - 348, Oriya - 282, Sindhi - 277, Sinhalese - 232, Assamese - 165, Italian - 158, Fijian - 129, Balinese - 129, and Vietnamese - 109.
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