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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.
Hindi is spoken as a first language by about 77,569 people in Nepal according to the 2011 Nepal census, and further by 1,225,950 people as a second language. A Hindi proponent, Indian-born Paramananda Jha, was elected vice-president of Nepal. He took his oath of office in Hindi in July 2008.
Lyle Campbell (2012) proposed the following list of 53 uncontroversial indigenous language families and 55 isolates of South America – a total of 108 independent families and isolates. Language families with 9 or more languages are highlighted in bold. The remaining language families all have 6 languages or fewer.
HindiUSA [1] is a non-profit and entirely volunteer-managed organization in the United States. With more than 4000 members, it is one of the largest Hindi volunteer groups in America. HindiUSA has a total of 26 schools, with 15 in New Jersey, four in Connecticut, and one each in Maryland and Massachusetts. HindiUSA also has an online school ...
The word Lipī ( 𑀮𑀺𑀧𑀻) used by Ashoka to describe his "Edicts". Brahmi script (Li= 𑀮 La+ 𑀺 i; pī= 𑀧 Pa+ 𑀻 ii). The word would be of Old Persian origin ("Dipi"). Pāṇini (6th to 4th century BCE) mentions lipi, the Indian word for writing scripts in his definitive work on Sanskrit grammar, the Ashtadhyayi.
The Algonquian language family is known for its complex polysynthetic morphology and sophisticated verb system. Statements that take many words to say in English can be expressed with a single word. Ex: ( Menominee ) paehtāwāēwesew "He is heard by higher powers" ( paeht - 'hear', - āwāē - 'spirit', - wese - passivizer, - w third-person ...
History of India. Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.
The Uinta and Ouray Indian Reservation is the second-largest Indian Reservation in the US – covering over 4,500,000 acres (18,000 km 2) of land. [2] [12] Tribal owned lands only cover approximately 1.2 million acres (4,855 km 2 ) of surface land and 40,000 acres (160 km 2 ) of mineral-owned land within the 4 million acres (16,185 km 2 ...