We use Sanskrit here in Japan for religious purposes at Buddhist temples. It’s called Bonji (梵字) in Japanese. It’s usually written vertically as well. Very nice video.

As a reader and reciter of the Vedic texts- your pronunciation is wonderful! Namaskaram 🙏🏽

Julie, I was delighted with your presentation on Sanskrit. I was amazed at the amount of information that you packed into a mere 10 minutes. Sanskrit has been the delight of my retirement years. I finally had a chance to learn it. It is so worthwhile to learn, because of the literature written in it. It reveals insights into the development not only of Indian languages but also of European languages.

Sanskrit influenced a lot of languages in southeast asia including my country Cambodia. Event the word “Cambodia” itself derived from sanskit.

This is definitely one of my favourite linguistic channel, keep up the good work!!!

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Sören Sörensen who translated the first edition of the "Bhagavad Gita" into Icelandic from Sanskrit said that the two languages had a lot in common. I met him once, he was probably in his nineties then and thanked him for the translation as I had a copy of it which I had bought from an antique book-store. And this gentleman lived just a few houses across the street from where we lived and we kids used to ring his door bell and run away prank sometimes.

I sing in Sanskrit for 1 hour every morning. 1, Hanuman chalisa,2 om namo hah 3 Chidananda 4 nitya praathna. Being performing for 1 hear and I swear it’s the best medicine ever! It produces stores energy in your system and you can uses it throughout the day so you don’t get tired easily

During the ancient times in Asia, Sanskrit was referred to “languages of the gods” many people around Asia came to India and learnt the language.

As long as there are people speaking this language and calling it their mother tongue, perhaps this language should be considered alive 🕉 Great video, Julie! Keep up the good work🙏

In answer to "alive, or dead", I would say that Sanskrit is neither. It is sort of immortal, and in that way it stands as an example of what any language can, and should be. As a creator of a language myself, I see Sanskrit as something to be achieved. It, as well as several others, has been a great source of inspiration. Well done all of you ancient grammarians. I honor you.

Is there anything this woman doesn’t know about language?! Love this channel and her voice manages to sound educational and kind at the same time. Much love. 💕🐝

JuLingo, you're amazing! You gave such a beautiful and very helpful explanation on Sanskrit. I hope that one day I'll learn Sanskrit and read the ancient texts especially the Bhagavad Gita. Please continue making new interesting videos on languages! Love from Kosovo❤

There's something about her eyes. Probably one of the most beatiful ones I've seen.

I did Sanskrit for a while. It sounds amazing, with its longish words, retroflex consonants, and with aspirated vs. non aspirated consonants. The grammar is very complex with a huge amount to memorize. The writing is diffecult because, because when a word starts with multiple consonants, the group is written into a single compound letter. That's more memorization! The last letter of the previous word mixes with the first letter of the following word, according complex rules that must memorized. This is called Sandhi. Sanskrit makes Latin look like a give away! However, Sanskrit sounds totally cool and gives the devoted endless challenge.

Thanks! As a former Sanskrit student, I just have two remarks : there are EIGHT cases in Sanskrit which are the very eight cases of Proto-Indo-European (you merely forgot the Vocative case) ; the word for "descent" is अवतार (avatāra), from the root ava-TĀR-/TṜ-. Otherwise it's good!

I like your Sanskrit pronunciations, you did some good research for the video!

I'm studying sanskrit to chant mantra in my yoga classes and personal practice. My teacher Sharada taught that there are no swear words in sanskrit, it is a very pure language.

Its interesting that the word "Mukha" that we use as tagalog word came from sanskrit.

Sanskrit is neither dead nor extinct language. Its an endangered language.

wonderful. I absolutely love the variety of languages on yo channel.

Hats off to the research and pronounciation 😳

Sanskrit is something else. It is like a canvas for a painter. A word can have lots of meaning. In the Philippine dialects, lots of words are borrowed by astronesian speakers and becomes a part of everyday use. I cant speak sanskrit but the words spoken are like what was explained in this video. Ex Sanskrit : Kr = Karana (indicate actions), Tagalog : Tara na (lets go), Tara (come) Sankrit : Phanim (snake, hooded), Tagalog: Payong ( umbrella) something above the head as a hood. (Also like a cobra wings.) Sankrit : Swami (husband), Tagalog : Asawa (spouse) gender neutral. Sanskrit : sakshi, Tagalog : saksi (witness) Sanskrit : asha, Tagalog : asa (hope), nasa ( desire) Sanskrit : Karma , Tagalog Karma (something you do will come back to you ) Sanskrit : Kama (love or desire / pleasure) Tagalog : Kama (bed), Mahal (love), kamasutra (bed lessons) or (lessons in bed). Sanskrit : Mukh, Tagalog : mukha ( face) Sanskrit : Rajah , Tagalog : Hari, Raha or Raja (spanish j = ha) means king salapi = money asal = behaviour / character bahaghari = rainbow Diwa = spirit bathala = great lord katha = fiction or tale likha = art (creativity) simba = to pray (chant) kulam/kolam = voodoo (sorcery) guru / guro (everybody knows this one) I think Sanskrit is not dead (most of the root words).

Wow, great video, and so nice to see you had an image of Mattur village showing vedic students receiving their lessons on the river bank from the great Aswattha Narayana Avadhani, before he took Sannyasa. You also have a nice clip of Gaiasanskrit singing sanskrit stotras in her wonderful style. Thank you!

I think that Sanskrit is the most beautiful language that exists, did exist and will exist forever ♾ and to me Sanskrit is an ocean that has no end💎❤️. Thank you so much for making this amazing video. Keep making amazing videos like this😉. Greetings from Kosovo 🇽🇰

I once read that Sankrit has over 60 terms for love, like a separate word for love between mother and daughter, or the nonsexual love between friends, etc. Haha, guess when I wrote this comment. ;)

Thank you so much for this intriguing and respectful overview of Sanskrit. As a Bengali speaker, this is much appreciated and is giving me a nudge to learn more. Your explanations and organization of all your videos are excellent!

I acted in a Drama in Sanskrit when I was in my School ..I was a dumb student in the Drama ..I fondly recall my memory after watching this episode! thank you .

Really grateful for taking a lot of work to create this video. Brilliant! Great job Julie!

That was jolly interesting. I was randomly looking for an overview of Sanskrit and that was exactly what I got. You covered a huge topic concisely and informatively. Thank you.

Miss Julie, not only the knowledge you gather is so vast yet briefly placed in the video but the way you present them makes it more interesting. Thank you for what you are doing.

Your videos are always well researched. Well presented. I speak Konkani, spoken by just about two million speakers worldwide and which has its roots in Sanskrit, just like a majority of the Indian languages of North and central India.

1500 words are similar between sanskrit language and Lithuanian language...

This was a great video that I found to be very informative. You missed the vocative case when listing the noun cases, but other than that, it was very nicely researched and very thoroughly presented. I've watched a few of your other videos too, and they're all very well-made as well. You have a new subscriber. :-)

The most comprehensive, clear and accurate explanation I've heard so far. Well done Julie.

Julie, amazing job tackling such a wide variety of languages, including the grammar and pronunciations! Really love the channel! And I really appreciate you taking on some of the lesser known languages. Would love to see some content about Hawaiian, Basque and perhaps some of the Arctic languages (perhaps Inuit or Sami). Also wondering if it would be possible to learn about the Old Norse / Viking tongues? I'd like to know more about how Norwegian, Swedish and Danish evolved.

A very nicely done viseo, Julie, thank you. My own Sanskrt teachers come from the Sanskrt village of Mattur, and I have visited it - a very lovely place near Shimoga in Karnataka. If you can visit, I recommend it

In just 10 Minutes, you have showed a detailed Analysis about Sanskrit :))

Thank you. Your short video has explained Sanskrit more clearly to me than my Indian friends have been able to do!

Wow. As a knower of Sanskrit and it’s few descendant languages, you did a superb job in a short video. You are simply amazing in your presentation skills. Subscribed.

I am enjoying your videos. I'm so impressed the level of detail and comprehension. Keep up the amazing work. And could you please do a video on Hebrew?

Love the video, Julie! I came here after I saw you killing it at Ecolinguist channel 👍🏽 I hope you won't let these ultranationalists of a certain country bring you down because they don't agree with what you say I this video. TBH it's quite entertaining how they feel like they know better about a certain language than linguists, geneticists, archaeologists, and anthropologists from all around the world 😁 Greetings from Indonesia! 🇮🇩

Julie, I just accidentally found this channel. Really nicely done and kudos on nailing the pronunciation. I also watched the segment on the Georgian language. Again, well done!

I enjoyed your video for providing a good background on Sanskrit - which has always been a mystery to me. You and Langfocus are good complements of each other. 👍

What an amazing presentation on Sanskrit language, which obviously is a foreign one to you ! As an Indian myself I have got enlightened about our own language by a foreigner ! I had one year of Sanskrit as an additional language in high school , and unfortunately most of us hated it. May be because we found it to be too difficult. I wish we had better teachers who could explain various facets of this language. Julie, you are amazing and keep up the great work.

Wow Great Video..! I'm from India..now Studying Degree in Sanksrit Grammar..♥️

Excellent summary! Your knowledge of languages and ability to highlight the most pertinent aspects of their history, structure and current context so briefly is very impressive!

I could watch your videos all day long! I hope you make more and more of those!!!!

An interesting point about living languages needing to evolve. The reference to affixes made me wonder whether this was part of Zamenhof's inspiration for Esperanto?

Thanks Julie you described Sanskrit in very easy way. Thanks a lot.

Just found your channel today. I love it so much! Thanks for your research and sharing with us :)

That was amazing! I believe you worked very hard to prepare your videos!

I read sanskrit stotra daily, words ignite from inner core and that is beauty of reading and listening sanskrit

Sanskrit is a language that has been partly developed naturally, partly revealed and partly discovered. And it is one of the few languages to have all these three faces. Sanskrit has a history of more than 4000 years, perhaps even extending upto 5500 years or more. It has several stages, right from the ancient pre-Vedic stage, Early Rigvedic stage, Later Rigvedic stage, Middle Vedic Sanskrit, Mantric Sanskrit, Brahmana prose type Vedic Sanskrit, Late Vedic Sanskrit, Standardized Sanskrit, Modern Sanskrit. Still, the language remains the same basically, with only way of expression and preferred vocabulary changing over time. Now, coming to the answer : Stage 1 : Development naturally The Vedic language, before the advent of Vedas, was a common spoken language, which was developed naturally from human sounds and proto languages. Much of the Sanskrit roots still belong to this category. The grammar and phonology had developed well enough at this stage itself, and the amazing language was created. Stage 2 : Development by revelations You could call the change in Sanskrit language expressions by the time of arrival of Vedas, to be belonging to this stage. Sanskrit language turned to be highly poetic, its literary ability increased a thousand fold, its vocabulary was refined and its ingenious capacity to create vocabulary increased. All this happened because of the development of the spoken language as a full fledged master literary language in Vedas. You could call Vedas as “revelations to the poets”. The Vedic language is a literary miracle. Its use of words, use of expressions and everything is rooted on the mystic poetic perspective that is rightly called a divine revelation or inspiration to the poets. For example, consider sun. The Vedic poets saw the sun in the horse, and horse in the sun. The sun was associated with rise from sea, born from time (Yama), who is first grasped by Gandharva (the singer devotee) and mounted by Indra. (Check my posts on concepts of God, its Indra, the sum of all concepts of God, who “mounts the Sun” ) In Rigveda 1.163, we find a stating of relation of this to the horse, who also rises from sea or land (through trade), first grasped by Gandharva (the Afghan), mounted by Indra (the king). This relation of horse with waters and sun is also reflected in the basic language : when yaha means water, yahva means a horse. Sun’s rays are called rashmi which itself is the name for horse’s reins. The Ashvamedha is thus a simple poetic narration of that brilliant dazzling horse of the sky which rounds the sky in an year, conquering all skies with its luminescence. The political seeker grasps the reins of horse, the spiritual seeker grasps the reins of spiritual sun, the living beings grasp the rays of the physical sun. Likewise, in every Sanskrit vocabulary, one can see the influence of Vedic poetry. Thus, it won’t be incorrect to state that Vedic poetry developed the Sanskrit vocabulary and sense of poetry. Nevertheless, it has given us so many profound words like brahman, deva, asura, yajna, go etc. which are books in themselves. 3. Development by discovery Sanskrit, like any other literary language, was deformed in popular speech. To conserve the language, the grammarians had to discover the roots of the language and words, re-state the rules of grammar, and create splendid works in etymology. And this required a discovery, an insight into the profound language gifted by the Vedas. Yaska compiled the nirukta for the Vedic words, Panini standardized the language across various dialects by discovering and redefining the rules of grammar. Sanskrit also developed technically, spiritually and philosophically with the discoveries of different technologies, spiritual traditions, philosophical branches. Now we have a Sanskrit that is a language stable naturally, through revelations of Vedic poetry and through constant discoveries in physical and spiritual worlds. It is a complete language in itself. Modern Sanskrit, apart from development through new literary phases, finds its main growth through technical vocabulary.

Good work, Julie. You tried to capture the basic features as well as the essence in a short profile. Almost perfect!

Loved your short video on Sanskrit, which I speak. You have basically covered it all, what everyone needs to know.

Namaskaram Julie ma'am, your point about Sanskrit language were too much clear and the pronounciation as well. Love from India 🇮🇳 And Now I am also learning Sanskrit.

I am a Bengali-speaking person from Bangladesh. Learning a language is my hobby. I love learning new languages. I am a multilingual Man. I can read, write, speak and understand Bangla, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, English, and Arabic. Now I have started to learn the Manipuri language. From Your videos, I got some basic knowledge about the language. Your explanations are very clear and helped me to learn a lot. Thanks for your nice videos.

This channel is amazing!!!😍❤️

Excellent presentation Julie. I am amazed by your perfect pronunciation. Keep up the good work!!

I'm living in tamilnadu.... And yes... Tamil and Sanskrit is the very most old languages in the world... Now u can google it and check "kizadi archeological research in Tamilnadu".... It is the new discovery in tamilnadu of india

Hi Julie! I read at some point, that -- while the formal grammar is much fixed -- the use of the grammar shifted from synthetic to analytic. So, one could consider it a language alive with a strong skeleton...

Exceptional! Thank you for creating this video. There’s a lot to learn from it. The only thing I don’t agree with is the timeline of the migration theory. 1,500 years seems to be unrealistically short to me. Yet, you qualify this point really well in the video by saying that there are many different views about this, and that you are presenting one such (widely known/accepted) view. Well done. Thanks again!

You are telling us , Glory of our ancient language.and giving us comparative knowledge of other indo European languages.thanks for enlightenment.

Interesting and worthwhile video. Sanskrit is a spoken language. The written form of Sanskrit was formerly written in Brahmi, a script that largely went into disuse starting nearly 2,000 years ago.

Every Srilankan Buddhist Monk must learn Sanskrit language ,Sanskrit is one of major language in there schools. Your pronounce is very good. Major south asian languages like Hindi, Tamil, Sinhalese are borrow Sanskrit word

Great research and very happy that you have created this video. Keep up the good work.

I absolutely love this video. Thank you much for it! I’ve been singing Sanskrit in prayer circles for years and desire to learn more about the language that is what lead me here. Inspiring me to dive deeper into the dialect

Thanks Julie! Another good one. Mahadev

Sanskrit is so difficult. I need a good teacher to learn it.I m Indian and Sanskrit teachers in my school don't know Sanskrit properly.

Your pronunciation of Sanskrit is so good. Really amazed!

Wow. What a beautiful video. Nicely explained. Throughly enjoyed. विद्या ददाति विनयं विनयात् याति पात्रताम्। पात्रत्वाद्धनमाप्नोति धनाद्धर्मं ततः सुखम्॥

As always, a fantastic video. You are very competent. Congratulations for your excellent work!!! You are one of a kind. Thank you and God bless you!!

Excellent introduction Julie. It does bring up the question of the genesis of languages. Which some have theorized is from one source. I think Noam Chomsky thought that some variation on Mother was universal. (Except here in Georgia the sounds for mother and father seem reversed.) I'd like to hear your ideas on this. Oh? Do you choose the next language based on how you would like to dress next? Thanks.

Good video! My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

I have been watching your videos. So young, yet so bright and knowledgable about so many lanuages. I can only speak one language. And the videos are not even from her mother tongue judging from her accent. Truly impressed.

Great video, Julie! I really enjoyed it. However, I am certain that Sanskrit has eight cases, and not seven. The eight cases are: nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative, vocative.

I wonder if she feels insulted by so many references to her beauty rather than comments about the content.

Great intro to Sanskrit! I’ve been wanting to learn Sanskrit my whole life. I’m going to begin now.

When there is harmony between the mind, heart, and resolution, then nothing is impossible. - Rig Veda❤🌞🕉️🧘🏻

My language khasi has sanskrit/hindi words too. Around 310-410 words. The newer dictionaries contain less sanskrit words compared to older dictionaries. Eg:) khalki in khasi means window. Nowadays it's an outdated term because we say 'jingkhangiit' now (jing=noun, Khang=close, ïit=glass)

Beautiful. I know many of the Sanskrit words you had used in the presentation because my language Bangla has originated from Sanskrit. Thanks for your lovely presentation. You are a language expert!

Your videos are really amazing. i didnt know a lot of (most of ) stuff mentioned. interesting. keep doing what you are doing

Well done! Informative and interesting. Thank you!

Sanskrit, when it comes to European languages, is most similar to Slavic languages, especially Serbian, both grammar and vocabulary.

everyone: being fascinated by the language's rich vocab me: lamenting the fact that love has 96 words and not 69😔

Very interesting language design - I like the no exception and the very structured approach - Thank you for all your videos on languages!

I love how incredibly knowledgeable you are. Your knowledge and beauty are intertwined and at a very high level. I’m very impressed, you are amazing. I am a fan.

Thanks for the video Madom

I remember reading there was some sort of connection between the Irish language and Sanskrit. Have you any info on that? Great vids btw. x

Always have been mystified by Sanskrit, yet after a few Vedas I was hooked as it describes things we don’t have words for in English. From a new subscriber thank you for sharing your knowledge ✨🙏🏼✨

You got most of the things right. I don't want to start a debate here, so leaving it at that. Good job.

Quite happy to 2 million are considering Samskritam as there mother tongue 6:41 exactly I am studying Vyākaranam and can say that it is brilliantly structured

To me, that was an important knowledge gap. THX. (Cool eyes you have, and what is behind them)

Very good video. You covered almost every basic thing about Sanskrit.

Amazing presentation on the richness of Sanskrit. I like your comment, 'once they started writing, they were unstoppable. Great job.

Finally, a new video❤️ Love you so much! Your channel is AWESOME!

Thank you for another interesting lecture. It's early in my part of the world and I watched while eating eggs and drinking tea ☕🍳👍

I love your narration. Talking about the languages is a very exceptional bonus for me 🥰

As a retired Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) teacher (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), I wish to compliment you on an excellent video.