Scripts Used in Village BAKHLI of Kurukshetra District

The various scripts used in village BAKHLI ( ºããŒãÊããè ) of Distt. Kurukshetra are :

Devnagari for Hindi, Sanskrit, Haryanvi and Bangru, Gurmukhi for Panjabi, Persian for Urdu, Roman for English, and Lande( Hindi Munimi) for book keeping(bahi khata).

After the migration of muslims in 1947, the use of Urdu has gradually given place to Hindi by villagers. Use of Urdu is now limited almost nill to the older and new generation, yet is known to Patwaris only.

 The displaced persons who settled in the village area after the partition of the India speak Panjabi specially migrated Sikh families( Labana).

In Government offices and educational institutions, Hindi is spoken by the majority.

The younger generation mostly uses Hindi, English and Hinglish in speech and  Hindi and English in writing; The business community still  more or less uses lande in maintaining their account books.

Pandit Suresh Kumar Kaushik of Bakhli(Pehowa) has keen interest in many Languages. He studied Hindi, Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, English, Tamil, Russion, Lande, Panjabi, Rajasthani(Marwari), Marathi and Gujrati.