Sant Bhasha

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Sant Bhasha is a historical North Indian devotional literary language used in Sikh and related spiritual poetry, written in the Gurmukhi script.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf North Indian language
devotional language
historical language
literary language
associatedWith Bhakti movement
Sikhism
characteristic accessible to common people
mixture of North Indian vernacular elements
culturalContext North Indian bhakti traditions
domain Sikh scripture
devotional literature
hasFunction mystical poetry
religious expression
hasType poetic register
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
region northern India
surface form: North India
relatedTo Braj Bhasha
Hindi
Punjabi language
script Gurmukhi
timePeriod early modern period of North India
usedBy North Indian sants
Sikh Gurus
usedFor composition of hymns
devotional songs
spiritual teachings
usedIn North Indian bhakti poetry
North Indian spiritual poetry
Sikh devotional poetry
writingSystem Gurmukhi
surface form: Gurmukhi script

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Gurmukhi usedForLanguage Sant Bhasha
Gurmukhi usedForLanguage Sant Bhasha
this entity surface form: Hindi