[susam]

Telugu is spoken by at least 74 million people in India. It ranks third in the list of mother tongues spoken in India. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of... for more information.

[jogjayr]

And in fact it's the 15th most-spoken language worldwide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...