[redofrac]

Much like Latin, a good deal of the regularity is because Sanskrit is only a written language.

[statictype]

Not sure what you mean but I believe Sanskrit was a spoken language, written down in each region's local script before being formalized in Devanagari.

[joiguru]

Sanskrit was not a natural spoken language. I was created as a language for worship. Although Sanskrit was spoken among the educated circles in India, but not in a natural setting. The example that our language teacher gave us, was of couple of students speaking French (say) who are learning it as a foreign language.

[gngeal]

I think what he means is that what people actually spoke every day was as different from our bookish notions of what Sanskrit is as the language of a poor farmer or a slave in Ancient Rome was from the writings of Cicero. You really can't equate the two things.

[anuraj]

And there is no formalization of Sanskrit in Devanagari - We (Keralites) still use Grantha script to write Sanskrit - And a lot of late Sanskrit works have their origin in Kerala. Infact Malayalm script was invented to write Sanskrit with ease on palm leaves.

[anuraj]

Sanskrit was only used for scholarly conversation between learned people - Ordinary folks always conversed in Prakrits (unrefined tongues)