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Sanskrit | ||||
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संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam | ||||
Region | South Asia | |||
Native speakers | 14,000 (2001) | |||
Language family | ||||
Writing system | No native script. Today it is usually written in Devanagari, but it was also previously written in various Brāhmī-based scripts. | |||
Official status | ||||
Official language in | India, Uttarakhand one of the 22 scheduled languages of India | |||
Language codes | ||||
ISO 639-1 | sa | |||
ISO 639-2 | san | |||
ISO 639-3 | san | |||
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Constitutionally recognised languages of India | |
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Scheduled Languages | |
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Official languages of India |
Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language. It is a sacred language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism and is the origin of most Indo-Aryan languages. Today, about 14,000 people in India use it as their daily language mostly for religious purposes. It is one of the 22 official languages of India. Most languages in Pakistan, North India, Nepal and Bangladesh are derived from Sanskrit. The Dravidian languages of South India are not derived from Sanskrit but got many loanwords from it. The two primary languages of Pakistan and India, Hindi and Urdu, are derived mainly from Sanskrit.