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Sanskrit

Sanskrit

Summary

Sanskrit is a classical Indo-European language written in the Devanagari script. With fusional grammar featuring eight cases and three genders, Sanskrit has a free word order. Revered as the language of ancient Hindu scriptures, it holds a profound cultural, religious, and philosophical significance, influencing many modern South Asian languages and continuing to be studied worldwide.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Devanagari

  • Writing System Type: Abugida

  • Writing Direction: Left to Right

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: None or 3 (Vedic)

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 8

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 4

  • Word Order: Free

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 8

  • Number of Consonants: 33

Areas Where Spoken

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