Sanskrit is a classical Indo-Aryan language and one of the oldest documented members of the Indo-European family; its earliest layer, Vedic Sanskrit, dates back well over three thousand years. The grammarian Panini described the classical language in remarkable detail around the fourth century BC, and his analysis still frames how Sanskrit is taught. Although it ceased long ago to be anyone's everyday vernacular, Sanskrit remains the liturgical language of Hinduism and is important in Buddhist and Jain traditions; it is one of India's scheduled languages, and small revival communities report it as a mother tongue. It is most often written in Devanagari, though historically many Indian scripts have carried it. Loanwords from Sanskrit run through the vocabularies of modern South and South East Asian languages.
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