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Countries

Countries
India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
52 31

Phonology

How Many Vowels
16 13

How Many Consonants
36 26

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks 5

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 75

Dialect 2
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
140,000.00 78

Dialect 3
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
140,000.00 64

Total No. Of Dialects
0

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
14.10 million 48

Speaking Population
0.01 % 62

Native Speakers
14.10 million 41

Second Language Speakers
-

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 21

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

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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 16 vowels and 36 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.

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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: India.

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: Sanskrit is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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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:

  • Hello: नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  • Thank you: धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  • Good Morning: सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  • Good Evening: शुभः सायंकालः
  • Good Afternoon: शुभ दुपार

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.

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