Our age, influenced by new media and technology is evolving new languages and dialects like Hinglish.
But the same media and technology is now being used to also revive the ancient classical Indian language - Sanskrit!
In fact, Sanskritvoice.com , a website set up by US-based Sanskrit enthusiast Seshu Karthick, hopes to popularise the age-old language and the texts and shlokas written in Sanskrit.
He set up the website just six months ago and already he has 150 users, both in India and abroad, who find the interactive website a convenient way to learn the sounds of ancient India.
Users can chat with each other on the site, write posts and learn new words every day or whenever they have the time.
"I have three simple objectives. One is to spread Sanskrit and make everyone learn Sanskrit, so I use RSS Readers and email programmes for that purpose. My RSS feeds will teach the glossary that they need and the email programmes will give you the email newsletter. Second the online community, so that people can collaborate and interact with each other," said Sethu Karthick, Founder, Sanskritvoice.com.
"I use something called the Campaign buttons. These campaign buttons can be embedded on various websites and can create awareness among people all over the world," she added.
Karthick isn't the only one. Professor Gerard Huet, based in Germany, has been using technology to promote Sanskrit for the past 10 years.
He has put online an interactive dictionary, a declension engine, and an exhaustive resource centre on Sanskrit.
"He has made significant progress in what he has done as he has been working on it for a decade. He has made a software which can analyse the kind of sentences in Sanskrit," said Professor K Ramasubramaniam, IIT, Mumbai.
But learning only through Internet the person may not be able to get the nuances and follow the ethics of the language. Besides individual effort, it requires organised offline support that it is getting from institutions like the Sanskrit Vidyapeetha.
These institutions use a combination of traditional methods and new technology to preserve manuscripts for archives and develop simple teaching tools, making Sanskrit more accessible to students in the 21st century.
"The first thing that our Vidyapeeth has endeavoured was a project named was CALT - Computer Application in language teaching, so this software can prove to be very friendly for those who want to learn the very basics of Sanskrit," said Professor Vachaspati Upadhyaya, Vice-Chancellor, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha.
"Sanskrit knowledge is vast and institutions like us can become a resource centre to help out people who wish to propagate Sanskrit through their websites," he added.
Information Technology and the Internet have brought about an economic and cultural metamorphosis. But only time will tell if these modern tools can help revive and popularise ancient languages and texts.