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Namaste ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐmɐste:], [ 1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [ 2][ 3][ 4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [ 5] It is used in the Indian subcontinent, and among the Indian and Nepalese diaspora.
Kutchi-Swahili. Writing system. Gujarati, [ 3] Khudabadi, Khojiki, Perso-Arabic. Language codes. ISO 639-3. kfr. Glottolog. kach1277. Kutchi ( / ˈkʌtʃi /; કચ્છી, 𑊺𑋀𑋪𑋁𑋢, ڪڇّي) or Kachhi[ b] is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Kutch region of India and Sindh region of Pakistan. [ 4][ 5]
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages[ a]) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, they have more than 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated east of the Indus river in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal. [ 1]
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; [ 5][ 6] both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages. [ 7][ 8][ 9][ a] Languages spoken by the remaining 2.31% of the ...
Behenchod (बहनचोद, بہنچود; English: Sisterfucker), also pronounced as behanchod is sometimes abbreviated as BC, is a Hindustani language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. The word is considered highly offensive, and is rarely used in literal sense of one who engages in sexual activity with another person's sister ...
Hinglish has become increasingly accepted at the governmental level in India as an alternative to Sanskritised Hindi; in 2011, the Home Ministry gave permission to officials to use English words in their Hindi notes, so long as they are written in Devanagari script. [43] [44] [45]
Arti. (Hinduism) Arti ( Hindi: आरती, romanized : Ārtī) or Arati ( Sanskrit: आरात्रिक, romanized : Ārātrika) [ 1][ 2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Arti also refers to the songs ...