Language code: 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.

Code

sa

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?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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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

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Sanskrit speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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