10 Unknown Facts about The Sanskrit Language

Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages with a documented history of almost 3,500 years.

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Rigveda, the oldest sacred text of the Hindus, is written in Sanskrit. It consists of more than 1,000 hymns or suktas, dedicated to Hindu deities.

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Sanskrit has also been used in movies. Six Sanskrit movies have been released so far, with one more slated for release in 2018.

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Sanskrit has many similarities with other old languages such as Ancient Greek and Classical Latin.

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Even though Sanskrit is no longer used as an everyday language, in two villages of Karnataka, Mattur, and Hosahalli, it is still the language of communication.

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Suresh Bharadwaj and Gobind Singh Thakur, out of 11 ministers, took their oath of office in Himachal Pradesh in Sanskrit, while the rest took it in Hindi.

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The first-ever center for spoken Sanskrit was launched in Ahmedabad on 10th February 2018.

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Sanskrit is the mother of most Indian languages. However, languages spoken in southern India belong to the Dravidian language family.

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In the 2011 census, 24,821 Indians said that Sanskrit was their primary language, which is less than 0.01 percent of the entire Indian population.

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Bhagavad Gita, which was translated into English in 1785, was the first book to be directly translated into any European language.

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