 According to the 1991 census, 22 'languages' had more than a million native speakers, 50 had more than 100,000 and 114 had more than 10,000 native speakers.The remaining accounted for a total of 566,000 native speakers (out of a total of 838 million Indians in 1991).The number of Sanskrit speakers in India in 1991 census was 49,736.