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Old Hindi, also known as Khariboli, was the earliest stage of the Hindustani language, and so the ancestor of today's Hindi and Urdu. It developed from Shauraseni, and was spoken by the peoples of the region around Delhi, in roughly the 10th–13th centuries before the Delhi Sultanate.
During the Muslim rule in India, Old Hindi began acquiring loanwords from Persian language language, which led to the development of Hindustani. (1993). 9789004097964, Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9789004097964 (1985). 9780907962304, Urdu Markaz; Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies. ISBN 9780907962304 It is attested in only a handful of works of literature, including some works by the Indo-Persian Muslim poet Amir Khusrau, verses by the Hindu poet Namdev, and some verses by the Sufi Muslim Baba Farid in the Adi Granth. (1993). 9780521299442, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521299442 The works of Bhakti Hindu poet Kabir also may be included, as he used a Khariboli-like dialect. Old Hindi was originally written in the Brahmic scripts in Devanagari calligraphy and also in the Arabic script as well, in Nastaliq calligraphy.
Some scholars include Apabhraṃśa poetry as early as 769 AD (Dohakosh by Siddha Sarahapad) within Old Hindi, but this is not generally accepted. Pp. 279–280: "Both within the Hindi and Urdu literary traditions many scholars attempt to assign as early a date as possible for the inception of Hindi, Urdu, or a common Hindi-Urdu literature. R.A. Dwivedi (1966:5), for instance, sees the earliest period of Hindi literature as extending from 760 AD and extending up to the eleventh century. Such an early date for the inception of a Hindi literature, one made possible only by subsuming the large body of Apabhraṁśa literature into Hindi, has not, however, been generally accepted by scholars ... The more generally agreed upon starting places for 'Hindi' literatures several centuries later (twelfth-fourteenth centuries), lie in several bodies of texts."
With loanwords from Persian added to Old Hindi's Prakrits base, the language evolved into Hindustani, which further developed into the present-day standardised varieties of Hindi and Urdu.
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