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The Kharoṣṭhī script, also known as the Gāndhārī script, is an ancient abugida (a kind of alphabetic script) used by the Gandhara culture of ancient northwest India to write the Gāndhārī and Sanskrit languages. It was in use from the 4th century BCE until it died out in its homeland around the 3rd century CE.
Hindi is the fastest growing language of India, followed by Kashmiriin the second place, with Meitei(officially called Manipuri) as well as Gujarati, in the third place, and Bengaliin the fourth place, according to the 2011 census of India. [32] Terminology.
It developed in north India, principally during the Mughal Empire, when the Persian language exerted a strong influence on the Western Hindi languages of central India; this contact between the Hindu and Muslim cultures resulted in the core Indo-Aryan vocabulary of the Indian dialect of Hindi spoken in Delhi, whose earliest form is known as Old ...
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 ...
Udant Martand [1] [2] ( lit. 'The Rising Sun') is the first Hindi language newspaper published in India. [3] [4] Started on 30 May 1826, from Calcutta (now Kolkata ), the weekly newspaper was published every Tuesday by Pt. Jugal Kishore Shukla. [5] [6] It was closed on 4 December 1827 due to financial crisis.
The Indian classical languages, or the Shastriya Bhasha or the Semmozhi, is an umbrella term for the languages of India having high antiquity, and valuable, original and distinct literary heritage. [1] The Republic of India officially recognises six languages as the Classical languages of India. In 2004, the Government of India declared that ...
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 began ...
Hindi Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in India after the English version. However, more than 85% of Wikipedia pageviews from India are to the English Wikipedia. Between January 2016 and January 2021 the share of Hindi Wikipedia increased from 2% to 8%. [3] On average, the Hindi Wikipedia receives 50 to 70 million monthly ...