sanTechnical information about ISO 639 language code san
The table below provides technical details for the Sanskrit language, designated by the san code from the ISO 639-2 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Sanskrit Native संस्कृतम् |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Vedic SanskritClassical Sanskrit |
| Related languages | PaliPrakritHindiBengaliMarathi |
| Key facts | Earliest texts date to about 1500 BCE, making it the oldest extensively documented Indo-European languagePāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī sets out a near-algorithmic grammar of roughly 4,000 rules that influenced modern linguistics and computer scienceSanskrit keeps three grammatical numbers—singular, dual, and plural—and eight casesIt has been written in many scripts such as Devanagari, Grantha, Sharada, and TeluguSanskrit vocabulary and prefixes strongly permeate modern South Asian languages and scientific terminology worldwide |
| Sample phrase | नमस्ते, कथम् असि? |
| Character encodings | |
| Supported in Localizely |
The Sanskrit language, identified by the code san, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Ancient' by its type.
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