Publications in this area are appearing with increasing frequency. I have not made any particular effort to keep track of them. The ones I have found sufficiently or more than sufficiently rich are:

Narendra. 1996, reprint 1997. संस्कृतस्य व्यावहारिकस्वरूपम् : Functional Sanskrit: Its Communicative Aspect. Puduccheri [= Pondicherry]: Saṁskṛta-kāryālayaḥ, Śrī-Aravindāśrama.

Joisa, Sowmya (and Vinita Sharma and Sharada Varadarajan). 2013. Mukulam. San Jose, CA: Samskrita Bharati USA. Postal address 4204 Latimer Avenue.

Dr. Sampadānanda Misra, <sampadanandamishra@gmail.com>, of Sri Aurobindo Foundations for Indian Culture (SAFIC), Pondicherry, is doing much innovative work in the field, concentrating especially on young learners. He also runs the Divyavani Sanskrit Radio accessible at http://tunein.com/radio/Divyavani-s205826/ For help, visit:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KNn3rwVA3e8cwjZYcUCCc80HEIq_mHcK1OvsjUs46Iw/edit

There is an older book by Hajime Nakamura on conversational/spoken Sanskrit, which is useful but would be inadequate for sustained and systematic study.

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On Oct 8, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Martin Gluckman <m.gluckman@anu.edu.au> wrote:

I am searching for any known (digital or otherwise) dictionaries/phrase books/word lists of conversational Sanskrit.

If anyone is aware of any such resources out there I would much appreciate.