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Sanskrit
saṃskṛtam
संस्कृतम्
The word saṃskṛtam written in Devanagari.
Pronunciation [sə̃skr̩t̪əm] About this sound pronunciation 
Region Greater India
Era ca. 2nd millennium BCE – 600 BCE (Vedic Sanskrit), after which it gave rise to the Middle Indo-Aryan languages.
Continues as a liturgical language (Classical Sanskrit).
Revival Attempts at revitalization.
Total: 5 million speakers (2001)
L1: 14,315
L2: 1,234,931
L3: 3,742,223
Early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
  • Sanskrit
No native script. Written in various Brahmic scripts.
Official status
Official language in
India
Language codes
ISO 639-1 sa
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3
Glottolog sans1269

Year Est. Name Location
1791 Sampurnanand Sanskrit University Varanasi
1824 Sanskrit College Kolkata
1876 Sadvidya Pathashala Mysore
1961 Kameshwar Singh Darbhanga Sanskrit University Darbhanga
1962 Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha Tirupati
1962 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha New Delhi
1970 Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan New Delhi
1981 Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University Puri
1986 Nepal Sanskrit University Nepal
1993 Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Kalady, Kerala
1997 Kavikulaguru Kalidas Sanskrit University Ramtek
2001 Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University Jaipur
2005 Uttarakhand Sanskrit University Haridwar
2005 Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Somnath-Veraval
2008 Maharshi Panini Sanskrit Evam Vedic Vishwavidyalaya Ujjain
2011 Karnataka Samskrit University Bangalore

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