.bharat
India has several IDN ccTLDs. Most of them can be transliterated as "Bharat" (.bharat), the local name for the country. The exceptions are the ones that are transliterated as "Bharatan" (.bharatan) and "Bharot" (.bharot). India is a multilingual country, with hundreds of different languages. They are managed by the National Internet Exchange of India.[1]
The Indian constitution recognizes 22 major languages in what is known as “the 8th Schedule” of the Constitution. They include, besides Sanskrit, the following 21 modern Indian languages: Assamese, Bangla, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Santali, Sindhi, and Urdu. There are also 14 major scripts.[2]
The following table is the official presented at the .IN Registry, containing all the IDNs and important information:
| IDN | Punycode | Script | Languages Supported | Generic Language Policies | State |
| .भारत | xn--h2brj9c | .Bharat in Devanagari Script | Hindi, Bodo(Boro), Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, and Sindhi-Devanagari | Devanagari Language policies | General Availability |
| .ভারত | xn--45brj9c | .Bharat in Bengali Script | Bengali and Manipuri | Bengali and Manipuri Language policies | General Availability |
| .భారత్ | xn--fpcrj9c3d | .Bharat in Telugu Script | Telugu | Telugu Language policies | General Availability |
| .ભારત | xn--gecrj9c | .Bharat in Gujarati Script | Gujarati | Gujarati Language policies | General Availability |
| .بھارت | xn--mgbbh1a71e | .Bharat in Arabic Script | Urdu | Urdu Language policies | General Availability |
| .இந்தியா | xn--xkc2dl3a5ee0h | .Bharat in Tamil Script | Tamil | Tamil Language policies | General Availability |
| .ਭਾਰਤ | xn--s9brj9c | .Bharat in Gurumukhi (Punjabi) Script | Punjabi | Gurumukhi Language policies | General Availability |
| .ಭಾರತ | xn--2scrj9c | .Bharat in Kannada Script | Kannada | Kannada Language policies | General Availability |
| .ଭାରତ | xn--3hcrj9c | .Bharat in Oriya Script | Oriya | Oriya Language policies | General Availability |
| .ভাৰত | xn--45br5cyl | .Bharat in Bangali Script | Assamese | Assamese Language policies | General Availability |
| .भारतम् | xn--h2breg3eve | .Bharatam in Devanagari Script | Sanskrit | Sanskrit Language policies | General Availability |
| .भारोत | xn--h2brj9c8c | .Bharot in Devanagari Script | Santali | Santali Language policies | General Availability |
| .بارت | xn--mgbbh1a | .Bharat in Arabic Script | Kashmiri | Kashmiri Language policies | General Availability |
| .ڀارت | xn--mgbgu82a | .Bharat in Arabic Script | Sindhi | Sindhi Language policies | General Availability |
| .ഭാരതം | xn--rvc1e0am3e | .Bharatam in Malayalam Script | Malayalam | Malayalam Language policies | General Availability |
Rules and Restrictions edit
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