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Devanagari is an abugida script derived from Brahmi and used for writing many languages in India and Nepal. It is the official script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others, and has a rich history and regional variations.
Learn about the different methods of transliterating Devanagari, an Indic script used for many languages of North India and Nepal, into Roman script. Compare IAST, Hunterian, ISO 15919, ASCII and other schemes with examples and features.
Doha (Urdu: دوہا, Hindi: दोहा, Punjabi: ਦੋਹਾ) is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. [1] Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim, Tulsidas ...
Palm-leaf manuscripts are manuscripts made out of dried palm leaves, used for writing in South Asia and Southeast Asia since the 5th century BCE. Learn about their history, regional variations, and examples of Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Christian texts on palm leaves.
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.
Learn about the three official scripts of India: Devanagari, Gurmukhi and Meitei. Find out which languages use them and where they are used in the country.
In addition to Hindi-Urdu, there have been attempts to design Indo-Pakistani transliteration systems for digraphic languages like Sindhi (written in extended Perso-Arabic in Sindh of Pakistan and in Devanagari by Sindhis in partitioned India), Punjabi (written in Gurmukhi in East Punjab and Shahmukhi in West Punjab), Saraiki (written in ...
Hindi is a standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India and the fourth most-spoken language in the world. Learn about its origin, development, vocabulary, grammar and dialects.