Sanskrit Total Speakers in India by State: 1991-2011

Name: Sanskrit Total Speakers, India State-wise
Creator: The Maps Daily
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Sanskrit Total Speakers, India State-wise, Language, Scheduled Language, India

Sanskrit had 31.23 lakh total speakers in the 2011 Census, down from 49.91 lakh in 2001 and 85.42 lakh in 1991. The language has virtually no native speakers in any community sense: only 24,821 people declared it their mother tongue in 2011. Its entire speaker base consists of…

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SourceTable C-17: Population by Bilingualism and Trilingualism

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Year	Value
1991	1785216
2001	1234931
2011	1134362