Official scripts of India explained

There are several official scripts of India. These are the Devangari script (used to write Hindi), the Gurmukhi script (used to write Punjabi), and the Meitei script (used to write the Meitei language).

Devanagari script

The Constitution of India says:Being the official script for Hindi, Devanagari is officially used in the Union Government of India as well as several Indian states where Hindi is an official language, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and the Indian union territories of Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.[1] Gujarat[2] [3] and West Bengal also officially use Devanagari, as these two states recognise Hindi as an additional official language.[4]

The Devanagari script (romanized: Devanāgarī) is the officially mandated script of the Bodo language in Assam,[5] the Konkani language in Goa,[6] and Sanskrit in Himachal Pradesh.[7]

Gurmukhi script

The Gurmukhi script (Panjabi; Punjabi: {{script|Guru|ਗੁਰਮੁਖੀ) is the official script for the Punjabi language in Punjab,[8] Haryana[9] and Delhi.[10]

Meitei script

The Meitei script (Manipuri: {{script|Mtei|[[ꯃꯩꯇꯩ ꯃꯌꯦꯛ]]) is the officially mandated script for the Meitei language of Manipur,[11] replacing the Bengali script, albeit with some allowance for parallel use.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 50th report (July 2012 to June 2013) . Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India . 26 December 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160708012438/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM50thReport.pdf . 8 July 2016.
  2. Web site: The Gujarat Official Languages Act, 1960 . indiacode.nic.in . 1961 . 21 December 2022 .
  3. Book: Benedikter, Thomas . Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India: An Appraisal of the Linguistic Rights of Minorities in India . LIT Verlag Münster . 2009 . 978-3-643-10231-7 . 89 . 13 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160425230812/https://books.google.com/books?id=vpZv2GHM7VQC&pg=PA89 . 25 April 2016 . live.
  4. News: Multi-lingual Bengal . 11 December 2012 . . 25 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180325232340/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1121211/jsp/bengal/story_16301872.jsp . 25 March 2018 . dead .
  5. Web site: The Assam Official Language Act, 1960 . India Code . Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India . 28 February 2024.
  6. Web site: The Goa, Daman and Diu Official Language Act, 1987. 19 December 1987. U.T. Administration of Daman & Diu. 26 December 2014.
  7. Web site: The Himachal Pradesh Official Language Act, 1975 . India Code . Legislative Department, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India.
  8. Web site: Punjab Official Languages Act, 1967 . 2024-03-16 . www.bareactslive.com.
  9. Web site: Haryana Official Language Act, 1969 . 2024-03-16 . www.bareactslive.com.
  10. Book: The Delhi Official Language Act, 2000 . English.
  11. Web site: The Manipur Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2021 . 2024-03-16 . manipurgovtpress.nic.in.

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