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Sanskrit Speakers in India in 2011 Census
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- Hindi and its various dialects continue to be the most spoken language in India, with more than 43% of the country declaring it their mother-tongue.
- While the speakers of several South Indian languages, and English, grow faster than the previous decades, they are losing their share in the overall percentage of speakers in the country.
- The Data was released by the office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
- Among India’s 22 scheduled languages, Sanskrit is the least spoken.
- The ancient language speaking population is just 0.00198 per cent of India's total population of 121 crore.
- It is preceded by Bodo, Manipuri, Konkani and Dogri in terms of the number of speakers.
- English, an unscheduled language, is mother tongue to around 2.6 lakh people.
- The Census records a ‘mother tongue’ as the “the language spoken in childhood by the person’s mother to the person”.
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