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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

India

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia

1.6 Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.7 Regulated By

Not Available

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Old German Language

1.10 Derived From

Prakrit Language

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

52
Rank: 31 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

16
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Devanagari

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)

3.2 Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)

3.3 How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)

3.4 Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)

3.5 Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः

3.6 Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार

3.7 Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)

3.8 Please

कृपया (kripayā)

3.9 Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

3.10 Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)

3.11 I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)

3.12 Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Not present

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Not present

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not present

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

0
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Persian
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

14.10 million
Rank: 48 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

14.10 million
Rank: 41 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Not Available

5.3.4 French Name

sanskrit

5.3.5 German Name

Sanskrit

5.4 Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]

5.5 Ethnicity

Not Available

6 History

6.1 Origin

2000 B.C.

6.2 Language Family

Indo-European Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

6.2.2 Branch

Indic

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Sanskrit

6.3.3 Language Position

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

sa

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

san

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

san

7.3 ISO 639 3

san

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

sans1269

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Ancient

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

7.7.3 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 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.

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.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

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.