Language/Sanskrit

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Facts about Sanskrit

• Language code (ISO 639-3): san
• Autonyms (how to write "Sanskrit" in Sanskrit): संस्कृतम्
• Other names for "Sanskrit": Deva Bhasha, Deva vani, Sanskrit bhasha
• The Sanskrit language is spoken in: India

Sanskrit is a classical language of South Asia belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age.

Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions.

As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

Sanskrit Dictionaries

• SanskritDictionary: Sanskrit-English dictionary

• SpokenSanskrit: Sanskrit-English dictionary

• SansDict: Sanskrit-English dictionary (compilation)

• Héritage du sanskrit: Sanskrit-French dictionary, by Gérard Huet (2021) + PDF format

• Indo-Tibetan lexical ressources for the study of Buddhism [[new.htm|

• Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged, with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, by Monier Monier-Williams (1899)

+ other version + online search or by alphabetical order (transliteration)

• Practical Sanskrit-English dictionary by Vaman Shivram Apte (1965, revised edition) + online search

• Student's Sanskrit-English dictionary by Vaman Shivram Apte (1891) + online search

• Practical Sanskrit dictionary by Arthur Macdonell (1929) + online search

• Sanskrit-English dictionary by Carl Capeller (1891) + online search

• Sanskrit-English dictionary & etymologies and comparisons of cognate words chiefly in Greek, Latin, Gothic, and Anglo-Saxon, by Theodor Benfey (1866)

• The roots, verb-forms and primary derivatives of the Sanskrit language by William Dwight Whitney (1885)

• Glossarium comparativum linguæ sanscritæ: Sanskrit-Latin dictionary, by Franz Bopp (1867)

• Radices linguæ sanscritæ: roots of the Sanskrit language (in Latin) by Niels Ludvig Westergaard (1841)

• Shabda kalpadrum, an encyclopædic dictionary of Sanskrit (with etymological origins) by Radha Kanta Deva (1967): I & II - III - IV - V

• Cologne University: Sanskrit dictionaries

Sources

https://www.lexilogos.com/english/sanskrit_dictionary.htm

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