I've recently started learning Sanskrit, and I have to say it is absolutely awesome. I encourage everyone out there to try it out, its definitely fun to learn and use.

I've read some articles on how sophisticated the Sanskrit grammar is and all but haven't studied it. What do you think about its grammar?

I also wanna learn Sanskrit. I'm dying to learn it but unfortunately, there's no Sanskrit classes here.

we should make a bhajan thread!

i like to chant sanskrit mantras, actually. they r very spiritually empowering.

The grammer is supposedly quite complex. I haven't gotten very far in the grammar part yet (this is just a beginners course), but we have learned about Panini and how he developed a very sophisticated grammer system for Sanskrit. I've read that computers can be programmed to understand Sanskrit, because of all the different grammatical structures that Panini created, and because he perfected the grammatical portion of Sanskrit to such a high degree that Computer Scientists can use his work to use Sanskrit has a computer langauge. Interesting stuff......

I haven't studied the Sanskrit grammar but I have done some research on its creator Panini. From what I know, he wrote the grammar of Sanskrit 2500 years ago, and was the world's first linguist. He discovered the linguistic ideas of grammar, morphology, phonology, morphemes, phonemes, roots, etc.

His grammar of Sanskrit also has a grammatical structure similar to a modern computer programming language. He used metarules, transformations and recursions, defined grammar rules into classes and functions, etc. like a computer programming language.

Some people call him the "father of computing" because his work was similar to the work of Alan Turing, the father of computers. Alan Turing was born in India and used a formal language structure similar to Panini's grammar in his work on the theoretical modern computer. The Panini-Backus form of formal language structure, based on Panini's grammar rules, is also used by most computer programming languages (including C++, Java, etc).

There's also an article on how Panini's grammar of Sanskrit apparently inspired Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic table:
http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0411080

^ That is an AWESOME link. Thank-you for posting it......

I always wanted to learn Sanskrit, but I couldn't even follow through with learning to read/write Gujarati. It is supposedly the most refined language ever, I think too refined for average people

hmm. maybe i might learn that after i get spanish and portuguese figured out.

i really should learn chinese first though. my parents are so mad at me.

Was just thinking about this and for a language as refined as Sanskrit it sure sounds $hitty. Latin is the same way. Greek and Persian sound a lot better.

I think its all personal preference. For example, I like the sound of the Japanese language a lot more than the Chinese one (no offense to anyone) but there's many who think the exact opposite way.

I have to admit that Sanskrit doesn't sound like a very smooth language. It sounds quite cold (in my opinion) probably because of the systematic nature of the language.

Farsi (Persian) sounds quite smooth on the other hand, kind of like Urdu.

Greek sounds better????? LOL!

We're talking about a language that has butchered pronunciations of foreign names for centuries before English came along and did the same thing. Greek is so horrible in name pronunciation. They made emperor Chandragupta's name into Sandrocottus, and Zarathustra's name into Zoroaster..........

I've always wanted to learn sanskrit, I mean after growing up hearing all the slokhas and mantras and stuff in sanskrit and especially after hearing the mahishashura mardini. But I better learn to write and read malayalam first.

Easy now folks, I have spoken, and what I say is final.

There are not a few Sanskrit words in Mongolian language!

Sanskrit seems awesome. It is chant-like... you know, magic spells...

What on earth? Magic spells!?

She probably meant when priests are chanting in Sanskrit, they sound like their casting magic spells. I used to think that way as well... when I was a kid.

Try searching for invinsibility spells in net and you'll find a Sankrit spell. It really sounds like a spell, cool, the bad thing is you must chant it 1008 times.

yessssssssssssssss its truly a sexy language

i think its one of the sexiest language its so exotic and surperb sounding

Your probably the only person I've heard of that thinks Sanskrit is sexy.