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Preferred term

sanSanskrit  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Sanskrit ( , originally , "refined speech"), is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand. In western classical linguistics, Sanskrit occupies a pre-eminent position along with Greek and Latin in Indo-European studies.

ISO 639-1 code

  • sa

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • san

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • san

ISO 639-3 code

  • san

Notation

  • san

In other languages

  • sanskrit

    French

  • Sanskrit
  • Sanskrit

    German

  • sanscrito

    Italian

  • Lingua sanscrita
  • Portuguese

  • Sânscrito
  • sánscrito

    Spanish

  • Sánscrito

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/san

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