<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The latest census figure of 2011 shows Sanskrit has earned 10,000 new speakers in a span of 10 years, a growth of 71 per cent, though the ancient language may be the least-spoken language in India. According to the 2011 data, released recently, 24,821 people have registered Sanskrit as their mother tongue, in comparison to 14,135 people who had said Sanskrit was their mother tongue in 2001. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">   </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">According to the data, Hindi remains India's most spoken language followed by Bengali. Hindi speaking population has increased by more than 10 crore between 2001-11. Bengali added more than 1.10 crore speakers in the 2011 census in comparison to 2001.</div>