Sanskrit 梵语 संस्कृता वाक्

source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/梵语

Sanskrit (संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism,^[2] and one of the 22 official languages of India.^[3] It is also declared as a Classical Language of India along with Tamil, Telugu and Kannada.


Sanskrit is a member of the Indo-Iranian sub-family of the Indo-European family of languages. Its closest ancient relatives are the Iranian languages Old Persian and Avestan.^[9] Within the wider Indo-European language family, Sanskrit shares characteristic sound changes with the Satem languages (particularly the Slavic and Baltic languages), and also with Greek.^[10]


梵语（संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, 簡稱 संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam）是印欧语系的印度-伊朗語族的印度-雅利安语支的一种语言^[3]，是印歐語系最古老的語言之一。和拉丁語一樣，梵語已經成為一種屬於學術和宗教的專門用語。


印度教經典《吠陀經》即用梵文寫成。其語法和發音均被當作一種宗教儀規而絲毫不差地保存下來。


梵天的语言^[4]。