About: Dingal

An Entity of Type: language, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Dingal (Devnagari: डिंगल; IAST: ḍiṁgala; also spelled Dimgal), also known as Old Western Rajasthani, is an ancient Indian language written in Nagri script and having literature in prose as well as poetry. It is a language of very high tone and requires a specific style of speaking. Dingal was used in Rajasthan and adjoining areas including Gujarat, Kutch, Malwa, and Sindh. Most of Dingal literature is said to be composed by Charans. It was prominently used in composition of war poetry praising the martial exploits of Rajput and Charan war heroes.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Dingal (Devnagari: डिंगल; IAST: ḍiṁgala; also spelled Dimgal), also known as Old Western Rajasthani, is an ancient Indian language written in Nagri script and having literature in prose as well as poetry. It is a language of very high tone and requires a specific style of speaking. Dingal was used in Rajasthan and adjoining areas including Gujarat, Kutch, Malwa, and Sindh. Most of Dingal literature is said to be composed by Charans. It was prominently used in composition of war poetry praising the martial exploits of Rajput and Charan war heroes. Dingal is a New Indo-Aryan (NIA) poetic language or style. It is called by various names such as Maru-Bhasha, Marwari, and Old Western Rājasthāni. Dingal is also described as one of five "pre-modern Hindi literary dialects", listed together with Braj, Avadhi, Sadhu and Maithili. Dingal has also been called as the ancestor of Marwari and Gujarati. Several Rajput kings wrote poems in Dingal, particularly Maharaja Man Singh Rathore (reign 1803-1843) of Marwar. (en)
dbo:languageFamily
dbo:spokenIn
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8546209 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 17238 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1114712051 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:altname
  • ḍiṁgala (en)
dbp:era
  • 8 (xsd:integer)
dbp:fam
dbp:familycolor
  • Indo-European (en)
dbp:name
  • Dingal (en)
dbp:notice
  • IPA (en)
dbp:script
dbp:states
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Dingal (Devnagari: डिंगल; IAST: ḍiṁgala; also spelled Dimgal), also known as Old Western Rajasthani, is an ancient Indian language written in Nagri script and having literature in prose as well as poetry. It is a language of very high tone and requires a specific style of speaking. Dingal was used in Rajasthan and adjoining areas including Gujarat, Kutch, Malwa, and Sindh. Most of Dingal literature is said to be composed by Charans. It was prominently used in composition of war poetry praising the martial exploits of Rajput and Charan war heroes. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Dingal (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Dingal (en)
is dbo:language of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:language of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License