Originally Posted By: BranShea
Amazing that
[ Sanskrit - INDO-ARYAN- 50.000 fluent speakers- Dead language]
there are 50.000 fluent speakers for a dead language. Or are there just as many for latin and old Greek?


That number was surprising to me too, I thought it would be higher. The total seems to have come from the 1991 census, I don't know what the 2001 census figure was.