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Vak (Samskrit: वाक्) means speech. Language study has early been considered vital in India to understand knowledge and consciousness, which is considered one with the Supreme Being in many schools of Indian philosophy. Language has come down in an oral tradition.  

Vak (Samskrit: वाक्) means speech. Language study has early been considered vital in India to understand knowledge and consciousness, which is considered one with the Supreme Being in many schools of Indian philosophy. It is well known that the life of language has been given to us in the form of oral tradition, through the breath of utterance. The creative power of Vak is held in high esteem in Vedas. Upanishad uphold that the primordial Omkara, the Pranava represent all speech and it is that alone which manifests in different forms as all syllables. 

Kapil Kapoor summarizes the three words used for language, bhasha, vak and vani.

Three words are used synonymously for language, namely bhasha (भाषा), vak (वाक्) and vaani (वाणी).  

== Introduction ==

== Introduction ==

Pratibha Pingle writes that after going through all the passages referring to vak, it is possible to reduce the main shades of meaning to six:<ref>Narayanan, Sharda. (2012) ''Vakyapadiya, Sphota, Jati and Dravya''. New Delhi : D. K Printworld (P) Ltd.</ref>

One scholar mentions that after going through all the passages referring to vak, it is possible to reduce the main shades of meaning to six:<ref>Narayanan, Sharda. (2012) ''Vakyapadiya, Sphota, Jati and Dravya''. New Delhi : D. K Printworld (P) Ltd.</ref>

# Vak as devata,

# Vak as devata,

# Vak as a stuti (Prayer)

# Vak as a stuti (Prayer)