Sanskrit language
Sanskrit (ISO 639-3 code san) is a language of the Indo-European family spoken in India.
Facts
| ISO 639-3 code | san |
|---|---|
| Glottocode | sans1269 |
| Family | Indo-European |
| Area | Eurasia |
| Countries | India |
Sanskrit words
Related languages
Other Indo-European languages, nearest first.
- Hindi610,000,000 speakers
- Bengali273,000,000 speakers
- Urdu232,000,000 speakers
- Punjabi130,000,000 speakers
- Marathi95,000,000 speakers
- Gujarati62,000,000 speakers
- Assamese15,000,000 speakers
- Kashmiri6,800,000 speakers
- Garhwali2,920,000 speakers
- Mahasu Pahari500,000 speakers
- Sirmauri400,000 speakers
- Khowar300,000 speakers
More about Sanskrit
Classification, area and countries: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Speaker numbers are estimates and differ between sources.