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  2. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi, ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī) [14] 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. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. Urdu) replaced Persian as the official language and was made co-official along with English.

  4. Hindi literature - Wikipedia

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    e. Hindi literature ( Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa like Awadhi, and Marwari languages. Hindi literature is composed in three broad styles ...

  5. 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 Modern Standard Hindi and Standard Urdu registers. [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.

  6. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    Rigveda 10.71.1–4 Translated by Roger Woodard The Vedic Sanskrit found in the Ṛg-veda is distinctly more archaic than other Vedic texts, and in many respects, the Rigvedic language is notably more similar to those found in the archaic texts of Old Avestan Zoroastrian Gathas and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. According to Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton – Indologists known for their ...

  7. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The system was invented between the 1st and 4th centuries by Indian mathematicians. The system was adopted in Arabic mathematics by the 9th century. It became more widely known through the writings in Arabic of the Persian mathematician Al-Khwārizmī [3] ( On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals , c. 825 ) and Arab mathematician Al-Kindi ( On ...

  8. Linguistic history of India - Wikipedia

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    The Indus script is the short strings of symbols associated with the Harappan civilization of ancient India (most of the Indus sites are distributed in present-day Pakistan and northwest India) used between 2600 and 1900 BCE, which evolved from an early Indus script attested from around 3500–3300 BCE.

  9. History of Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Roots of Hinduism. Periodisation. Pre-Vedic religions (until c. 1750 BCE) Vedic period (c. 1750–500 BCE) Second Urbanisation and decline of Brahmanism (c. 600–200 BCE) Hindu synthesis and Classical Hinduism (c. 200 BCE – 1200 CE) Medieval and early modern periods (c. 1200–1850 CE) Modern Hinduism (after c. 1850 CE) Contemporary Hinduism.