ISO 639-3 · sansan
Indo-European family · extinct or historical language, macrolanguage
Sanskrit
संस्कृतम्
Sanskrit is an extinct or historical language of the Indo-Aryan branch (Indo-European), spoken in India. Wikidata counts 26,490 first-language speakers (2011). Wikidata describes it as “ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
san- ISO 639-1
sa- Glottocode
sans1269- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 4 Educational
- Centre point
- 26.50, 71.50
- Wikipedia
- 220 language editions
26,490first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
1scripts
3levels in the tree
4EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Sanskrit · संस्कृतम् |
|---|---|
| Also called | Sunscrit, skt, Samskrta, Samskrtam, Sanſcrit |
| L1 speakers | 26,490 (2011) |
| All speakers | 14,135 (2001) |
| Written in | Devanagari |
| Grammatical cases | 8 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 3 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | extinct or historical language, macrolanguage |
Vitality
EGIDS 4 Educational4
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Sanskrit
The branches above Sanskrit, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in India
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalhinHindiIndo-European · 615.3 m1 · NationalfraFrenchIndo-European · 285.4 m0 · InternationalporPortugueseIndo-European · 227.3 m1 · NationalurdUrduunclassified · 162.6 m1 · NationalpanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafebenBanglaIndo-European · 106 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialmarMarathiunclassified · 77 m2 · ProvincialbhoBhojpuriIndo-European · 52.2 m4 · Educational