[naveensundar]

Sanskrit is quite a unique language and is far from being dead.

Modern linguistics owes quite a lot to Sanskrit, e.g. Chomsky's famous notation, thematic roles in semantics, controlled grammar, compositional semantics etc.

I suggest the following article in the AI magazine which merely touches the surface of what makes Sanskrit stand out.

http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/46...