Sant Bhasha

Sant Bhasha
Sant Bhasha
Language of Saints
ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
	Painting of Guru Arjan being fanned with a book before him. The Sikh gurus employed the Sant Bhasha language for their poetic compositions in the Sikh scriptures
Region	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 and its dialects, Lahnda, Saraiki (specifically Multani), regional Prakrits, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Hindustani languages (Braj, Kauravi, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi, Deccani), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian, and Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Sant Bhasha (ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ (Gurmukhi); Sant Bhāṣā; meaning "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.

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