Dingal is an ancient Indian

History of India

The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens as long as 75,000 years ago, or with earlier hominids including Homo erectus from about 500,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization, which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from...

 language written in Nagri

Nagri

Nagri is a town and a nagar panchayat in Dhamtari district in the Indian state of Chhattishgarh.-Demographics: India census, Nagri had a population of 6565. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Nagri has an average literacy rate of 67%, higher than the national average of 59.5%:...

 script and having literature in prose as well as poetry.

This language was being spoken and used for writing in present Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

, Gujarat and Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

 of Pakistan

Pakistan

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. There are many Rajasthani poets and writers who have written in dingal.

'Dingal' is also a small, quaint village within the Medinipur District of the State of West Bengal, India. Dingal is the original home of 'Hui' family.Dingal Village in Wikimapia

Dingal Poetry

Dingal Poetry incorporates heroic writing on the heroes of Rajasthan like Prithviraj Chauhan, Prince Khoman of Mewar etc. It is an admixture of inter-regional languages. In Rajasthan such languages formed pingal language.

Babu Ramnarayan Dugar

Born in 1857 A.D. in an Oswal family, Babu Ramnarayan Dugar was a prominent authority on Pingal language and was a close associate of Kaviraj Shyamaldasji, the author or Vir Vinod, the official history of rulers of Mewar

Mewar

Mewar is a region of south-central Rajasthan state in western India. It includes the present-day districts of Pratapgarh, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Rajsamand, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Banswara and some of the part of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The region was for centuries a Rajput kingdom that later...

. In later days he was associated with M.M. Ojha. His most prominent work is Hindi translation of Nainsi's khyat from Dingal language to Hindi.

Ingal

Ingal is an ancient Indian language, a form of Prakrit

Prakrit

Prakrit is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious...

 popular in Sind and nearby areas.

Pingal

Pingal is an ancient and now extinct Indian language, it was a form of Prakrit

Prakrit

Prakrit is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious...

popular in Rajasthan and nearby areas.

External links

• An article on BBC