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Devanagari is an Indic script used for many Indo-Aryan languages of North India and Nepal, including Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, which was the script used to write Classical Sanskrit. There are several somewhat similar methods of transliteration from Devanagari to the Roman script (a process sometimes called romanisation ), including the ...
Jai Hind ( Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [ 1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [ 2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [ 3][ 4] and used during India's independence movement from British rule ...
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.
Modern Standard Hindi ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [ 9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.
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 ' Bhavishya Purana' ( Bhaviṣya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit. [ 1][ 2] The title Bhavishya means "future" and implies it is a work that contains prophecies regarding the future. [ 3][ 4] The Bhavishya Purana exists in many inconsistent versions, wherein the content as ...
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]
The modern Hindi and Urdu standards are highly mutually intelligible in colloquial form, but use different scripts when written, and have lesser mutually intelligibility in literary forms. The history of Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu is closely linked, with the early translators of the Hindustani language simply producing the same ...