Langdi
{{Short description|Script used in the Indian subcontinent}}
{{for|the children's game|Langdi (sport)}}
{{Infobox Writing system
| type = Abugida
| name = Langdi
| altname =
| sample = 'Haryanvi' written in Langdi script.jpg
| caption =
| languages = Haryanvi, Punjabic languages, and Rajasthani languages
| time = ? — 20th century
| fam1 = Proto-Sinaitic alphabet
| fam2 = Phoenician alphabet
| fam3 = Aramaic alphabet
| fam4 = Brāhmī
| fam5 = Gupta
| fam6 = Śāradā
| fam7 = Landa
| fam8 = Mahajani?
| sisters =
| iso15924 =
| unicode =
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| note = none
}}
Langdi, also known as Langdi Hindi, was a script commonly used by traders used to write Haryanvi, Punjabi, or Saraiki in the Indian subcontinent.{{cite web|url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040302/haryana.htm#17| title = 'Langdi Hindi' on the verge of extinction|work = The Tribune|accessdate = 2009-12-25}} Bookkeepers, known as munīm ({{langx|hi|मुनीम}}, {{langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|مُنِیم}}}}), would also keep records in this script. It remains undocumented.{{Cite news |last=Anushree |first=Anubha |date=8 September 2023 |title=Rethinking India's Manuscript Practices as Official Policy Undervalues Its Rich Heritage |url=https://thewire.in/history/rethinking-manuscript-practices-in-india |access-date=11 June 2025 |work=The Wire |quote=Langdi Hindi, a form of script used exclusively for bookkeeping in Haryana and the regions surrounding it remains completely undocumented.}}
Some scholars have claimed that Langdi is a form of Mahajani for writing in parts of Haryana. Its proper connection must be more thoroughly explored.{{Cite web |last=Anshuman |first=Pandey |date=12 July 2011 |title=Proposal to Encode the Mahajani Script in ISO/IEC 10646 |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11274-n4126-mahajani.pdf |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=www.unicode.org}} It was one of the two main scripts used by merchants in northwest India, the other being Mundi.{{Cite book |last=Kaushik |first=Kshama V. |title=India Means Business: How the elephant earned its stripes |last2=Dutta |first2=Kaushik |date=Jan 23, 2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199088515 |chapter=Bahi-Khata and Parta System |quote=The language used for writing depends on the business; since most of the Indian business was in the hands of Marwaris and Gujaratis in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, mundi was the language of choice for bookkeeping. The other accounting language was found among Punjabi businessmen which was called langdi Hindi.}}