it is very sad that northerns let the greatest language Sanskrit to die and speak in a language where you have to know whether a stone is male or female.
Sanskrit is spoken natively by the population in Mattur village in central Karnataka. Inhabitants of all castes learn Sanskrit starting in childhood and converse in the language. Even the local Muslims speak and converse in Sanskrit. Historically, the village was given by king Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara Empire to Vedic scholars and their families. KANNADIGAS CHEERZ.