Language code: sa
Technical information about ISO 639 language code sa
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The table below provides technical details for the Sanskrit language, designated by the sa code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Sanskrit Native संस्कृतम् |
| Family | Indo-Aryan |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Vedic SanskritClassical Sanskrit |
| Related languages | HindiBengaliMarathiGujaratiNepali |
| Key facts | One of the oldest recorded Indo-European languages with literature dating back over 3,000 yearsPāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī is an early and highly systematic descriptive grammarFeatures eight grammatical cases, three numbers, and three grammatical gendersTraditional phonetic ordering reflects precise articulatory positions and is used in linguistic studiesA vast corpus of scientific, poetic, and philosophical texts across Asia is composed in Sanskrit |
| Sample phrase | नमस्ते, कथम् अस्ति भवान्? |
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Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-European language family, specifically within the Indo-Aryan subgroup. It is primarily a classical and liturgical language, not commonly used for daily communication. Sanskrit is written using the Devanagari script. It is estimated that there are around 20,000 speakers worldwide, primarily scholars and practitioners who use it for religious, scholarly, and educational purposes.
Language presence globally
Speakers
20K
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sanskrit speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- Localization workflow
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- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
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- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
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