The Samskritam sounds have been organized to affect the person chanting them. This comes from a deep understanding that everything in the universe is a vibration
Wonderful article on the science of the Sanskrit aksharas. So many people confuse 'akshara' (the primal sound unit) with alphabet which is the written representation unit and can be in a variety of scripts. What is extremely interesting is the similarity of the patterns of most pan-Indian languages in terms of the classification identical to the Sanskrit aksharamala. This extends beyond India in several cases.
The Vedic sound classification is one aspect where the pronunciation is given maximum importance. In the later classical Sanskrit especially after Panini's codification in the Ashtadhyayi, Sanskrit essentially became the only spoken language with a meta-language where you could create words from their roots using an applied set of rules. This is fairly complex computing by the human mind and is another important key for Sanskrit being amara (immortal) and hence being called Devabhasha.
Wonderful article on the science of the Sanskrit aksharas. So many people confuse 'akshara' (the primal sound unit) with alphabet which is the written representation unit and can be in a variety of scripts. What is extremely interesting is the similarity of the patterns of most pan-Indian languages in terms of the classification identical to the Sanskrit aksharamala. This extends beyond India in several cases.
Another interesting aspect is the use and codification of these sounds for data preservation and transmission over millennia which I wrote about here -> https://itihaasa.substack.com/p/the-science-of-phonetics-siksa-vedanga
The Vedic sound classification is one aspect where the pronunciation is given maximum importance. In the later classical Sanskrit especially after Panini's codification in the Ashtadhyayi, Sanskrit essentially became the only spoken language with a meta-language where you could create words from their roots using an applied set of rules. This is fairly complex computing by the human mind and is another important key for Sanskrit being amara (immortal) and hence being called Devabhasha.