Sanskrit

Sanskrit
	संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam
	The wird Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) written in Devanagari.
Pronunciation	[sə̃skɹ̩t̪əm]
Region	Greater Indie
Native speakers	14,000 (2001)
Leid faimily	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sanskrit; ; ;
Writin seestem	Na native script.; Written in Devanagari,; various Brāhmī-based alphabets,; Thai in vocabularies, an Latin script
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Uttarakhand, Indie; Ane o the 22 scheduled leids o Indie
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	sa
ISO 639-2	san
ISO 639-3	san

Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) is a historical leid an liturgical leid o Buddhism an Hinduism an is ane o 22 offeecial leids o Indie. Its poseetion in Indie sib tae the poseetion o Laitin in Europe an haes influenced maist o the modren leids o Indie an Nepal. It is verra auld, an it can be datit back tae 1500BC, an ane o the earliest Indo-European leids. Sanskrit leetaratur includes lots o poetry an drama, wi scienteefic, technical an Hindu texts an aw. Nouadays, Sanskrit is widely uised as a ceremonial leid in Hinduism, an spoken Sanskrit is still uised in some a few institutions, an thare are mony shotties at a revival.

References

↑ "Comparative speaker's strength of scheduled languages − 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001". Census of India, 2001. Office of the Registrar and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
↑ Banerji, Suresh (1971). A companion to Sanskrit literature: spanning a period of over three thousand years, containing brief accounts of authors, works, characters, technical terms, geographical names, myths, legends, and twelve appendices. p. 672. ISBN 978-81-208-0063-2.^{[deid airtin]}

[Census-1] "Comparative speaker's strength of scheduled languages − 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001". Census of India, 2001. Office of the Registrar and Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 31 December 2009.

[banerji-2] Banerji, Suresh (1971). A companion to Sanskrit literature: spanning a period of over three thousand years, containing brief accounts of authors, works, characters, technical terms, geographical names, myths, legends, and twelve appendices. p. 672. ISBN 978-81-208-0063-2.^{[deid airtin]}

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