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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.
90. 359. Fiji Hindi is also understood and even spoken by Indigenous Fijians in areas of Fiji where there are large Indo-Fijian communities. A pidgin form of the language is used by rural ethnic Fijians, as well as Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Fijian is spoken by Indo-Fijians.
Hindi is considered a Sanskritisedregister[10]of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Kharibolidialect of Delhiand neighbouring areas. [11][12][13]It is an official languagein nine states and three union territoriesand an additional official language in three other states.
In these cities, the language continued to be called "Hindi" as well as "Urdu". [27] [21] While Urdu retained the grammar and core vocabulary of the local Hindi dialect, it adopted the Nastaleeq writing system from Persian. [21] [28] The term Hindustani is derived from Hindustan, the Persian-origin name for the northwestern Indian subcontinent.
Old Hindi. 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 ...
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 ...
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.
Suryakant Tripathi (21 February 1899 – 15 October 1961) was an Indian poet, writer, composer, and sketch artist who wrote in Hindi. He is considered one of the four major pillars [ a] of the Chhayavad period in Hindi literature. He is renowned with the epithet Mahāprāṇ[ b] and his pen name Nirālā[ c].