Sanskrit-The DevaBhaasha

Sanskrit is known as the Devabhaasha, spoken by scholars, in contrast with Prakrit, the language spoken by the masses in the days of yore. As the name indicates, Prakrit means "natural" while Sanskrit means "refined".
Our ancestors have meticulously framed this wonderful language in such a way that the letters are arranged in the logical order of sounds that humans can produce. That is why we have "a" (as in Ajay) as the first letter and "am" as the last letter of the Sanskrit alphabet. This gives us a very simple explanation of the word OM. Jnaanis will tell us that OM is everything-it is the sound of creation that has manifested into all the matter around us. However, I found an explanation by a Ramakrishna Math monk to be very interesting. Here it is:

When someone tells you that he knows the "A-Z" of something, he means that he knows everything about that, since the English alphabet starts with "A" and ends with "Z". Now, if we take the Omkara, it can be expanded as A+U+M, starting with "A", the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, which is also the first sound uttered by a person when he opens his mouth to speak; and ending with "UM", which is the last letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, and also the sound produced when a person closes his mouth while making a sound. Thus, OM is the Sanskrit equivalent of "A-Z", meaning that it is everything!

Recently, this logical arrangement of sounds in this language has attracted the attention of scientists, who have found it to be very conducive for use in artificial intelligence applications that rely on such an arrangement.

Thus, we must understand that it is not for nothing that such a difficult language has been developed-our Vedas have survived the test of time only because of the perfect way in which this language has been devised.

Interestingly, in the village of Mathur, near Shivamogga in Karnataka, villagers speak Sanskrit even today. There is also a village in Madhya Pradesh where Sanskrit is the language spoken by the common people.