san | ISO 639-3 Skip to main content Toggle navigation Contact Us Search Search Home About ISO 639-3 FAQs Relationship between ISO 639-3 and the other sets of ISO 639 Scope of Denotation Types of Languages Code Tables Language Codes Macrolanguage Mappings Deprecated Codes Download Tables Code Changes Introduction to Code Changes Change Management Notification of Changes Submitting Change Requests Change Request Index Archive of Notifications ISO 639-3 Code Tables Change Requests 639 Identifier Documentation: san << Back to Code Tables Sanskrit [san] Identifier Language Name(s) Status Code Sets Equivalent(s) Scope Language Type Denotations san Sanskrit Active 639-2, 639-3 639-1: sa Macrolanguage Historical Ethnologue, Glottolog, Wikipedia Sanskrit is a macrolanguage. Macrolanguage Individual Languages Identifier Reference Name san Sanskrit Identifier Reference Name Status cls Classical Sanskrit Active vsn Vedic Sanskrit Active Code Change History Change Request Number Status Effective Date Change Type Change Attribute Old Value New Value 2011-041 Adopted 2023-12-15 Update Scope Individual language Macrolanguage with member languages [vsn] Vedic Sanskrit and [cls] Classical Sanskrit About ISO 639-3 About ISO 639-3 FAQ Relationship to other parts of ISO 639 Scope of Denotation Types of Languages Code Tables Macrolanguage Mappings Download Tables Code Changes Introduction to Code Changes Change Management Notification of Changes Submitting Change Requests Archive of Notifications Archive of Notifications Contact Us Contact Us Copyright © 2026 SIL Global Terms of Use Privacy Policy External Links Disclaimer