Sant Bhasha
Sant Bhasha (ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ; 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.

Features 
Sant Bhasha is notable for its high usage of inherited tadbhava vocabulary in-comparison to Sanskritic tatsama borrowings.

In Sikhism 
Sant Bhasha is most prominently used in the central Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib. The languages used include Punjabi and its dialects, Lahnda, regional Prakrits, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Hindustani languages (Brajbhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi, Deccani), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian, and Arabic. While vocabulary from all of these languages is used, Sant Bhasha is only written in the Gurmukhi script.

See also
 Sadhukadi
 Khalsa bole, coded language of Nihang Sikhs
 Sikh scriptures
 Guru Granth Sahib
 Dasam Granth
 Sarbloh Granth
 Sikh art and culture
 History of Sikhism

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Indo-Aryan languages
Languages of India
Sikh culture