Sanskrit

Indo-European (Indo-Aryan)25,000 fluent usersDevanagari

RegionIndia (classical)

FamilyIndo-European (Indo-Aryan)

Speakers25,000 fluent users

ScriptDevanagari

TypeAbugida

About Sanskrit

The classical sacred language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Grammarian Panini fixed it in about 4,000 rules around 500 BC, a landmark of linguistics. The Rigveda, over 3,000 years old, is still recited. A few villages keep it as daily speech. Root of most North Indian languages.

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