Spring 2027

First Semester Sanskrit

First Semester Sanskrit develops elementary listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills via communicative approaches, including Devanagari script.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize and produce the sounds of the Sanskrit language.

  • Transliterate Sanskrit in Roman script.

  • Read and write in the Devanagari script.

  • Read, speak, and write simple sentences in Sanskrit.

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Proficiency at the elementary level in listening, speaking, reading and writing using communicative approaches. Not open to students with credit for LCA LANG 375 prior to Fall 2019.

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Topics

  • Sanskrit phonetics and pronunciation
  • Roman script transliteration of Sanskrit
  • Devanagari script literacy
  • Simple Sanskrit sentence construction and comprehension

Skills

  • Listening, speaking, reading, and writing elementary Sanskrit using communicative approaches
  • Transliterating Sanskrit in Roman script
  • Reading and writing in the Devanagari script

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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