Sanskrit is often referred to as the “mother of all languages” in India, and for good reason. Its roots stretch back over 3,000 years, predating many of the world’s classical languages.

Sanskrit is an ancient and classical Indo-European language from South Asia. It is the sacred language of Hinduism, but also the medium through which much of India’s greatest science, philosophy ...

Every ancient language, whether it’s Sumerian, Sanskrit, or Old Chinese, is like a fossil—preserved evidence of our past. Scientists sift through these linguistic relics to discover when and ...

Many practitioners of Hinduism argue that through Sanskrit’s sound and structure, one can access deeper truths and higher states of consciousness, going far beyond the limitations of conventional ...

This ancient language puzzle was impossible to solve—until a PhD student cracked the code The discovery makes it possible to translate any word written in Sanskrit. By Laura Baisas ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named ...

Deven Patel, a professor of South Asia studies at the University of Pennsylvania, says the earliest written records of Sanskrit are ancient Hindu texts that were composed between 1500 and 1200 B.C ...

Laura Spinney’s “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Ancient languages, such as Sanskrit and Latin are dying out - they shouldn't be. Imagine this. Imagine a language that has been existing for so long that it has existed from the beginning of ...

Rishi Rajpopat, 27, decoded a rule taught by Panini, a master of the ancient Sanskrit language who lived around 2,500 years ago. Sanskrit is mostly spoken in India by an estimated 25,000 people ...