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Kaithi

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Kaithi, also called “Kayathi” or “Kayasthi”, is a historical Brahmic script that was used widely in parts of Northern and Eastern India, primarily in the present-day states of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. In particular, it was used for writing legal, administrative and private records. It was used for a variety of Indo-Aryan languages, including Angika, Bajjika,Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Hindustani, Magahi, Maithili, and Nagpuri. Kaithi was originated from kayastha group (cast) of india. Kayasthi

John Gilchrist (linguist)

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John Borthwick Gilchrist FRSE (19 June 1759 – 9 January 1841) was a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. In later life, he returned to Britain and lived in Edinburgh and London. In his final years, he moved to Paris, where he died at the age of

Jaishankar Prasad

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Jaishankar Prasad (30 January 1889 – 15 November 1937) was a prominent figure in modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. Prasad was his pen name. Contents 1Poetic style 2Dramas and other writings 3Major works 3.1Poetry 3.2Drama 3.3Story collections 3.4Novels 4Legacy 4.1Neo-romanticism in Hindi Literature 5Critical reception 6References 7Sources 8External links Poetic style Prasad started writing poetry with the

ITRANS

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The “Indian languages TRANSliteration” (ITRANS) is an ASCII transliteration scheme for Indic scripts, particularly for Devanagari script. The need for a simple encoding scheme that used only keys available on an ordinary keyboard was felt in the early days of the RMIM newsgroup where lyrics and trivia about Indian popular movie songs was being discussed. In parallel was a Sanskrit Mailing list that quickly

ISO 15919

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ISO 15919 “Transliteration of Devanagari and related Indic scripts into Latin characters” is one of a series of international standards for romanization by the International Organization for Standardization. It was published in 2001 and uses diacritics to map the much larger set of consonants and vowels in Brahmic scripts to the Latin script. Contents 1Overview 2Relation to other systems 2.1Comparison with UNRSGN and IAST 3Font

Hunterian transliteration

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The Hunterian transliteration system is the “national system of romanization in India” and the one officially adopted by the Government of India. Hunterian transliteration was sometimes also called the Jonesian transliteration system because it derived closely from a previous transliteration method developed by William Jones (1746–1794). Upon its establishment, the Sahitya Akademi (India’s National Academy of Letters) also adopted the Hunterian method, with additional adaptations, as its standard

History of Hindustani

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Hindustani (Hindi: हिंदुस्तानी, Urdu: ہندوستانی) is one of the predominant languages of South Asia, with federal status in India and Pakistan in its standardized forms of Hindi and Urdu. It is widely spoken and understood as a second language in Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Persian Gulf and as such is considered a lingua franca in the Indian subcontinent. It is also one of the most widely spoken languages in the world by total number

Hindustani phonology

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Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal. Contents 1Vowels 1.1Vowel 1.2Vowel 1.3Vowels , , , 1.4Vowels , 1.5Vowels , 1.6Nasalization of vowels 2Consonants 2.1Allophony of and 2.2External borrowing 3Suprasegmental features 4See also 5References 6Bibliography Vowels Hindustani

Hindustani grammar

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Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu. Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style. On this grammar page Hindustani is written in “standard orientalist” transcription as outlined in Masica (1991:xv). Being “primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, based in

List of languages by number of native speakers in India

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India is home to several hundred languages. Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (Munda) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (c. 0.8%), with some languages of the Himalayas still unclassified. The SIL Ethnologue lists 415 living languages for India. Contents 1Overview 2List of languages by number of native speakers 2.1More than one million speakers