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Countries

Countries

India

Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
0 46
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National Language

India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

-

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.

Similar To

Old German Language

Derived From

Prakrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

16
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 32
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How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks
Rank: 5 (Overall)
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)

Please

कृपया (kripayā)

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

140,000.00
Rank: 75 (Overall)
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

140,000.00
Rank: 78 (Overall)
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present

Where They Speak

-

How Many People Speak

140,000.00
Rank: 64 (Overall)
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

0
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million
Rank: 48 (Overall)
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %
Rank: 62 (Overall)
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million
Rank: 41 (Overall)
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam

French Name

sanskrit

German Name

Sanskrit

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers

History

Origin

2000 B.C.

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit

Standard Forms

Sanskrit

Language Position

23
Rank: 21 (Overall)
1 120
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Signed Forms

-

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san

ISO 639 2/B

san

ISO 639 3

san

ISO 639 6

san

Glottocode

sans1269

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Sanskrit

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Sanskrit Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Sanskrit Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Sanskrit. Sanskrit phonology gives Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Sanskrit language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Sanskrit is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Sanskrit language is given in detail in this section.

All Sanskrit countries

Want to explore all Sanskrit countries? About Sanskrit language serves you with all Sanskrit Speaking Countries. Countries that use Sanskrit as official language are called as Sanskrit countries.

  • Countries that use Sanskrit as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Sanskrit as second language are: .

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Learn Sanskrit greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Sanskrit Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Sanskrit language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Sanskrit language.Learn Sanskrit greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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  • Good Morning:
  • Good Evening:
  • Good Afternoon:

All Sanskrit Language Codes

Get to know all Sanskrit language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Sanskrit Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.