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  2. Official scripts of India - Wikipedia

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    Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli ...

  3. InScript keyboard - Wikipedia

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    InScript (short for Indic Script) is the decreed standard keyboard layout for Indian scripts using a standard 104- or 105-key layout.This keyboard layout was standardised by the Government of India for inputting text in languages of India written in Brahmic scripts, as well as the Santali language, written in the non-Brahmic Ol Chiki script. [1]

  4. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Devanāgarī is part of the Brahmic family of scripts of India, Nepal, Tibet, and Southeast Asia. [ 23][ 24] It is a descendant of the 3rd century BCE Brāhmī script, which evolved into the Nagari script which in turn gave birth to Devanāgarī and Nandināgarī. Devanāgarī has been widely adopted across India and Nepal to write Sanskrit ...

  5. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (standardized Hindi and standardized Urdu) has been written in several different scripts. Most Hindi texts are written in the Devanagari script, which is derived from the Brāhmī script of Ancient India. Most Urdu texts are written in the Urdu alphabet, which comes from the Persian alphabet. Hindustani has been written in both scripts.

  6. Kaithi - Wikipedia

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    Kaithi was the most widely used script of North India west of Bengal. In 1854, 77,368 school primers were in Kaithi script, as compared to 25,151 in Devanagari and 24,302 in Mahajani. [ 4] Among the three scripts widely used in the ' Hindi Belt ', Kaithi was widely perceived to be neutral, as it was used by both Hindus and Muslims alike ...

  7. List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Makhanlal Chaturvedi was the first winner of this award. Krishna Sobti was the first woman winner of this award. Daya Prakash Sinha is the recent winner of this award. Year. Author. Work. Type of Work. 1955. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.

  8. Ancient scripts of the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The Śāradā, Sarada or Sharada script is an abugida writing system of the Brahmic family of scripts. The script was widespread between the 8th and 12th centuries in the northwestern parts of Indian Subcontinent (in Kashmir and northern KPK), for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. [ 18][ 19][ 20] Originally more widespread, its use became later ...

  9. Old Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Old Hindi. Old Hindi[ a] or Khariboli was the earliest stage of the Hindustani language, and so the ancestor of today's Hindi and Urdu. [ 2] It developed from Shauraseni Prakrit and was spoken by the peoples of the region around Delhi, in roughly the 10th–13th centuries before the Delhi Sultanate. During the Muslim rule in India, Old Hindi ...