sa
Technical information about ISO 639 language code sa
The table below provides technical details for the Sanskrit language, designated by the sa
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
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.
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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