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  2. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    The script's prototypes and related versions have been discovered with ancient relics outside India, in places such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Indonesia. In East Asia, the Siddhaṃ matrika script (considered as the closest precursor to Nāgarī) was in use by Buddhists. [17] [30] Nāgarī has been the primus inter pares of the Indic scripts. [17]

  5. Devanagari transliteration - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Jana Gana Mana - Wikipedia

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    Jana Gana Mana (Bengali: জন গণ মন lit.'[Ruler of] the minds of the people') is the national anthem of the Republic of India. It was originally composed as " Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata " in Bengali by polymath Rabindranath Tagore [ 1 ][ 2 ] on 11 December 1911. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] The first stanza of the song Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata was ...

  8. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Hindi–Urdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...

  9. Brahmic scripts - Wikipedia

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    Brahmic scripts spread in a peaceful manner, Indianization, or the spread of Indian learning. The scripts spread naturally to Southeast Asia, at ports on trading routes. [2] At these trading posts, ancient inscriptions have been found in Sanskrit, using scripts that originated in India.