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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

India

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

16
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

36
Rank: 26 (Overall)
German
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)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Cebuano
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)
Macedonian
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)
Dzongkha
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)
Romanian
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)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

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

5.3 Native Speakers

14.10 million
Rank: 41 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
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)
Chinese
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

Origin of Sanskrit language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Sanskrit language is one of the Best Languages to Learn. The origin of Sanskrit language states that it was put to use in 2000 B.C.. The history of Sanskrit language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Sanskrit Language History.The evolution of Sanskrit language began with early forms such as Vedic Sanskrit. Sanskrit is the standard form of Sanskrit language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Sanskrit Language.

Sanskrit population

Sanskrit population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Sanskrit language. Sanskrit language is spoken by 14.10 million people in the world. Most of the Sanskrit population lies in the Sanskrit Speaking Countries. Sanskrit language is spoken as first language by 14.10 million people and no total count of people speaking Sanskrit as second language. Get to know Sanskrit speaking population in detail.

Sanskrit writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Sanskrit writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Sanskrit language. Some languages share common writing systems. Devanagari script is used by Sanskrit language. Learn more about . 

Information about Sanskrit language

Check out all the information about Sanskrit language here. You may find it interesting to learn Sanskrit Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Sanskrit Speaking Countries, Sanskrit speaking continents and Sanskrit Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Sanskrit countries knowing common Sanskrit Greetings will help you in communicating with Sanskrit people.