Sanskrit to English Translation
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All 198 language pairsAbout Sanskrit and English
Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) is an Indo-Aryan language (Indo-European family), descended from the same roots as Sanskrit, spoken in India as a classical language of scripture, poetry, philosophy and scholarship, from which many Indian languages draw their vocabulary. It is written in Devanagari: each consonant carries a built-in "a" sound, other vowels are added as signs (matras), and a line across the top (shirorekha) joins the letters of a word. About 25,000 people in India speak it as their first language (Census 2011).
English is a Germanic language (Indo-European family), spoken in countries around the world; in India it is used alongside Hindi for the official work of the Union government, in courts and in higher education. It is written in the Latin alphabet: an alphabet in which vowels and consonants are separate letters.
How Sanskrit and English compare
- Sanskrit is written in Devanagari and English in the Latin alphabet, so the translation changes the script as well as the words.
- Sanskrit and English are distant relatives in the Indo-European family (the Indo-Aryan and Germanic branches), but most everyday words are different.
- Sanskrit usually puts words in the order subject–object–verb, with the verb at the end; English uses subject–verb–object, so sentences are reordered in translation.
| Sanskrit | English | |
|---|---|---|
| Script | Devanagari | Latin alphabet |
| Letters | अ आ इ ई उ ऋ क ख | A B C D E F G H |
| Hello | नमस्ते | Hello |
| Thank you | धन्यवादः | Thank you |
| Written | Left to right | Left to right |
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Do Sanskrit and English use the same script?
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