Question: From what is Sanskrit an adaption?
Answer: Old Indo-Aryan

Question: From what language did Sanskrit originate?
Answer: Vedic Sanskrit

Question: In what year was the daily newspaper Sudharma first published?
Answer: 1970

Question: Where are Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam published?
Answer: Gujarat

Question: In what year did daily news broadcasts in Sankrit begin on state-run All India Radio?
Answer: 1974

Question: Approximately how many weeklies, fortnightlies and quarterlies published in Sanskrit?
Answer: Over 90

Question: What is the broadcast time for Sanskrit news on the DD National channel?
Answer: 6:55 AM IST

Question: What is the publication, Sudharma?
Answer: daily newspaper

Question: Where is the newspaper Sudharma published?
Answer: Mysore, India

Question: What language are many periodicals published in in India?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: Since what year has there been a daily broadcast on All India Radio?
Answer: 1974

Question: Where can the Sanskrit broadcasts be found online?
Answer: AIR's website

Question: In Ancient India, which vernacular languages existed alongside Sanskrit?
Answer: Prakrits

Question: The works of which two scholars were used to teach Sanskrit to the higher castes of India?
Answer: Pāṇini and Patanjali

Question: The use of Sanskrit was considered to be a marker of what in Ancient India?
Answer: social class and educational attainment

Question: What type of language were Prakrits?
Answer: Middle Indo-Aryan

Question: Which Sanskrit linguist describes Sanskrit as a "particularly refined or perfected manner of speaking?"
Answer: Madhav Deshpande

Question: What style of speech did linguist Madhav Deshpande say Sanskrit started out as?
Answer: perfected manner

Question: Of what was Sanskrit once thought to be a divider?
Answer: social class

Question: How was Sanskrit originally used?
Answer: ritual

Question: Where was Sanskrit a learned language of the high classes?
Answer: Ancient India

Question: With what did Sanskrit exist beside?
Answer: vernacular Prakrits

Question: Around what time did the Gupta script become prevalent for writing Sanskrit?
Answer: between the fourth and eighth centuries

Question: What types of script was used to write Sanskrit in the northwest part of Indai?
Answer: Kharosthi

Question: Which script evolved from the Gupta script in the 8th century?
Answer: Śāradā

Question: In what time period did the Devangari script become prevalent?
Answer: 11th or 12th century

Question: Which script replaced the Gupta script?
Answer: Devanagari

Question: What were used to write Sanskrit?
Answer: Brahmic scripts

Question: Between the forth and eighth century, what script evolved?
Answer: Gupta

Question: What script was used in the northwest of India?
Answer: Kharosthi

Question: From what was Gupta derived?
Answer: Brahmi

Question: What script evolved from the Gupta script?
Answer: Śāradā

Question: Tagalog is what kind of language?
Answer: Philippine

Question: From what language is a large proportion of Tagalog derived?
Answer: Spanish

Question: What is an example of a Sanskrit loanword used in Southeast Asian languages?
Answer: bhāṣā

Question: What is the meaning of the Sanskrit loanword "bhāṣā?"
Answer: spoken language

Question: What is an example of a traditional language that derives much of its vocabulary from Sanskrit?
Answer: Malay

Question: Where were many Sanskrit words found?
Answer: Austronesian languages

Question: In what older from of which language were more than half the words borrowed from Sanskrit?
Answer: Javanese

Question: What Sanskrit borrowed word is found in many Asian languages?
Answer: bhāṣā

Question: What is the meaning of bhasa?
Answer: spoken language

Question: Where does traditional Malay get many of its loanwords?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: What are two examples of epic poetry written in Sanskrit?
Answer: the Ramayana and Mahabharata

Question: What are prakritisms?
Answer: borrowings from common speech

Question: Which Sanskrit literary language has been influenced by the Middle Indo-Aryan languages?
Answer: Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit

Question: How long was Sanskrit a language of culture?
Answer: 2000 years

Question: What epic poems are written in post-Vedic Sanskrit?
Answer: Ramayana and Mahabharata

Question: Where is a post-Vedic form of Sanskrit found?
Answer: Indian epic poetry

Question: Of what are deviations in the epics thought to be the influence?
Answer: Prakrits

Question: What is found to a lesser extent in Classical Sanskrit?
Answer: prakritisms

Question: When was the time of Panini?
Answer: fourth century BCE

Question: What type of text is the Samaveda?
Answer: Vedic texts

Question: What was Sanskrit used for?
Answer: sacred purposes

Question: How was Sanskrit viewed to be in relation to maintaining class?
Answer: conservative

Question: To what did the use of Sanskrit as a upper class language produce a resistance ?
Answer: change

Question: Who has said the Sanskrit is dead?
Answer: Sheldon Pollock

Question: According to Pollock, how is Sanskrit solely used?
Answer: literary cultures

Question: What is Sanskrit not  able to express?
Answer: the modern age

Question: How is Sanskrit limited in it function towards ideas?
Answer: restatements

Question: To what is Sanskrit restricted?
Answer: hymns

Question: To what has the Central Board of Education of India relegated Sanskrit? 
Answer: alternative option

Question: Where has the Education Board ranked Sanskrit as a language option?
Answer: second or third

Question: What grades in Indian schools have an option for Sanskrit study?
Answer: 5 to 8

Question: In what language states is Sanskrit considered an option?
Answer: Hindi

Question: In what other type of schools is Sanskrit also taught?
Answer: gurukulas

Question: What English school offers Sanskrit as a language study?
Answer: St James Junior School

Question: Since what date has Sanskrit been offered as a language option in the U.S.?
Answer: September 2009

Question: What is the credit towards in study in the U.S.?
Answer: Foreign Language

Question: Who coordinates the study program of Samskritam as a Foreign Language?
Answer: Samskrita Bharati.

Question: What school in Australia offers Sanskrit as a study?
Answer: Sydney Grammar School

Question: Under what type of tradition did Sanskrit begin?
Answer: oral tradition

Question: After what language evolved was writing introduced?
Answer: Prakrits

Question: What does Sanskrit not have of its own?
Answer: native script

Question: What feature of written text influenced the use of scripts?
Answer: regional scripts

Question: Which writing systems have been used to write Sanskrit?
Answer: all

Question: From what time has the Latin alphabet been used to transcribe Sanskrit?
Answer: late 18th century

Question: What transliteration system is most common today?
Answer: IAST

Question: How long has IAST been the standard system used for transliteration of Sanskrit?
Answer: since 1888

Question: What is used in transliteration for computer systems? 
Answer: ASCII

Question: What transliteration scheme is often used on the internet?
Answer: ITRANS

Question: What in the use of Sanskrit has influenced Sino-Tibetan languages?
Answer: Buddhist texts

Question: What religion was spread to China through Sanskrit translations?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Who sent missionaries to China?
Answer: Ashoka

Question: What were transliterated and added to the Chinese language?
Answer: Many terms

Question: Where do many Sanskrit texts survive?
Answer: Tibetan collections

Question: What language has influenced the languages of India?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: From what dialect is Hindi descended?
Answer: Khariboli

Question: Of what is Hindi considered to be in relation to Sanskrit?
Answer: Sanskritised register

Question: What is the percentage of Sanskrit words thought to be in modern Indo-Aryan languages?
Answer: fifty percent