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Neologisms coined from Sanskrit

Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. They are often formed as calques of English words. These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek.

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Influence of Sanskritisms in Sinhala

Hock, Hans Henrich (1992). "A note on English and modern Sanskrit". World Englishes. 11 (2–3): 163–171. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1992.tb00061.x. ISSN 0883-2919.
Ganpat Teli, M.Phil. "Revisiting the Making of Hindi as a ‘National’ Language", M.Phil.
D'Souza, Jean (1987). "English in India's language modernization". World Englishes. 6 (1): 63–70. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971X.1987.tb00177.x. ISSN 0883-2919.

v t e Sanskrit
Influence zone	Greater India Indosphere Mandala model
Mode of spread	Sociology Linguistic Sanskritism
Language	Vedic Buddhist Hybrid Grammar Nouns Pronouns Compounds Verbs Vedic grammar Prosody
Scripts	Origin Brahmi script Later development Devanagari Nandinagari Nagari script Spread of usage Bangla script Gujarati script Kawi script Odia script Suyat family of scripts
Writings	Literature Buddhist literature Drama Epics Historic texts Legendary creatures Poets Vyākaraṇa
Current usage	Sanskrit mottos of universities in India Loanwords English Hindi Indonesian Tagalog Malay inscriptions
Modern status	Revival Studies Academic institutes outside India Universities in India Misplaced Pages World Sanskrit Day World Sanskrit Conference

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