Sanskrit
(Reguidit frae Sanskrit leid)
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.
| Sanskrit | |
|---|---|
| संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam | |
 The wird Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) written in Devanagari. | |
| Pronunciation | [sə̃skɹ̩t̪əm] |
| Region | Greater Indie |
Native speakers | 14,000[1] (2001) |
Indo-European
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| Na native script.[2] Written in Devanagari, various Brāhmī-based alphabets, Thai in vocabularies, an Latin script | |
| Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in |  Uttarakhand, IndieAne o the 22 scheduled leids o Indie |
| Leid codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | sa |
| ISO 639-2 | san |
| ISO 639-3 | san |
References
eedit- ↑ "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]
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