New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- Aided by live translation in 22 languages, more lawmakers in the Lok Sabha are making speeches in their mother tongue, the Lower House secretariat's data has revealed.

In the winter session of Parliament, 160 speeches -- fully or in part -- were delivered in languages other than Hindi and English in the Lok Sabha. Tamil topped the chart with 50 speeches, followed by Marathi (43) and Bengali (25).

In the previous monsoon session, which was longer than the winter session, there were 13 Tamil speeches,12 in Marathi and just 10 in Bengali, the data shows.

A senior official at the secretariat said that previously, many MPs tried to speak in Hindi or English due to lack of interpreters or other support systems. Those wh...