Sant Bhasha

Sant Bhasha
Sant Bhasha
ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
Region	Northern Indian subcontinent
Era	Medieval-period to present-day
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Sant Bhasha; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit debated Prakrit debated Apabhraṃśa Old Punjabi ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Gurmukhi (including Anandpur Lipi)
Sources	Punjabi (various dialects); regional Prakrits; Apabhramsa; Sanskrit; Hindi languages (Braj, Kauravi, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi, Deccani); Persian; Arabic; Bhojpuri; Sindhi; Marathi; Marwari; Bengali;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Sant Bhasha (Gurmukhi: ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ; romanized: Sant Bhāṣā; lit. 'language of saints') is a liturgical and scriptural language composed of vocabulary common to northern Indian languages, which was extensively used by saints and poets to compose religious verses. It can be understood by readers with a background in either Punjabi, Hindi-Urdu and its dialects.