The writing of modern India is the Devanagari with which several languages are written, which are spoken in that country. It is something like the Latin alphabet for languages, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, among others.
India is an almost continental nation with a remote history that has influenced over time to create different cultures that developed different languages and languages.
Devanagari writing system
Among the languages written with Devanagari can be found the official language of India which is Hindi and Sanskrit, considered sacred.
In addition, there is Bhili, Bhoshpurí, Bijarí, Kashmir, Konkaní, Marathi, Nepali and Sindhi, for a total of 18 official languages.
Devanagari, the writing of India
This writing system is believed to have its distant origin 300 years before Christ. At first it was believed that they were only symbols and not a writing system as such.
There are 400 different symbols on record, by the time Devanagari anthropologists and scholars assume it was its beginning.
Currently, a large part of the scriptures related to the languages of India are called the Indo-Aryan language family.
What is the
It is written in the same sense as the Romance languages, that is, from left to right. Languages like Arabic are written from right to left.
The writing system is a combination of sounds in a syllabary and an alphabet to form words.
Spanish is written with five vowels, unlike Devanagari which has twelve vowels or svara. In addition, it has 34 vyanjana or consonants, while Spanish has 21.
Unlike the alphabet used on the western side of the world, which has different grammatical rules for writing with upper and lower case, the languages written with Devanagari are not case differentiated.
Each consonant has an associated vowel that is eliminated when it is written with another word.
What is the Hindi language like?
This language is spoken by more than 70% of Hindus, mainly in the south of the country.
As in Latin, in Farsi -language of Iran- and in Japanese in Hindi, the position when speaking is the subject, followed by the object and then the verb.
This is something complicated for those who speak Spanish, who always have the subject order, followed by the verb and ends with the object. For example, the phrase "I am rich", in Hindi, would be said: "I am rich", placing the verb last.
About Sanskrit
The meaning of the word Devanagari is the language of the gods or divinities. It is believed that it was brought to earth so that men could communicate with the gods.
Today Sanskrit is a dead language, but it has widespread liturgical use in Buddhism and Hinduism, and it is written with Devanagari.
Sanskrit is one of the oldest languages in the world, and many others derived from it like Hindi itself.
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