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    alongside English. It is written in Devanagari script and is the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language...
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    Deccan, and used as a lingua franca in both countries. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari...
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  • Hindustani language is the lingua franca of Pakistan and Northern India.[self-published source?][page needed] Many Hindi speaking North Indian states...
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    sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region. The term "Hindi belt" is sometimes...
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    2019. Earlier Hindi films tended to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible by speakers of either Hindi or Urdu, while modern Hindi productions...
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    the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone includes the Dehlavi (Delhi) dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca...
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  • understood in regions where Hindi and Urdu are not indigenous, such as some parts of Northeast India. Hindi has emerged as a lingua franca for the locals of...
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  • Haflong Hindi (Hindi: हफ़लौंग हिन्दी) is the lingua franca of Dima Hasao district of Assam state of India. It is a pidgin that stemmed from Hindustani...
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    Fiji Hindi (Devanagari: फ़िजी हिंदी; Kaithi: 𑂣𑂺𑂱𑂔𑂲⸱𑂯𑂱𑂁𑂠𑂲; Perso-Arabic: فجی ہندی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Indo-Fijians. It is an...
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    decreolization of the língua brasílica and the related língua geral paulista, then spoken in almost all of what is now São Paulo, a former lingua franca in most...
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  • Hindustani language, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan In an intermediate sense, Central Indo-Aryan languages, also called Hindi languages In the...
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    Partition). Apart from this, Hindustani forms the lingua franca in a large region in Pakistan and North India (Hindi Belt) and the trade language in Andaman and...
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    southern India, and by names such as Hindi, Hindavi, and Hindustani in northern India and elsewhere, it emerged as a lingua franca across much of India and...
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    Urdu (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    Routledge. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-135-79711-9. Paul Teyssier: História da Língua Portuguesa, S. 94. Lisbon 1987 Peter Austin (1 September 2008). One thousand...
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    Suriname after Dutch and Sranan Tongo (the two lingua francas). It developed as a fusion of Bihari and Eastern Hindi languages, specifically Bhojpuri, Awadhi...
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  • Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative...
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    Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu. Grammatical differences between the two...
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  • popular was Hindi, spoken by around 30% of India's population. Jawaharlal Nehru – the prime minister of India at the time – viewed a lingua franca as necessary...
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  • delimiters. Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language...
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  • Hindi–Urdu (Devanagari: हिन्दी-उर्दू, Nastaliq: ہندی-اردو) (also known as Hindustani) is the lingua franca of modern-day Northern India and Pakistan (together...
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    population and speak Hindi. English was the sole official language until 1997 and is widely used in government, business, and education as a lingua franca. Considerable...
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  • Hindustani (Hindi: हिन्दुस्तानी, Urdu: ہندوستانی) is one of the predominant languages of South Asia, with federal status in the republics of India and...
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  • Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit....
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    Languages of India (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
    government.[citation needed] Hindi, which has the largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern...
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  • Hindi is one of the official languages in the Indian state of Bihar. Although Hindustani is the lingua-franca of the region, the majority of the people...
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  • Hinglish (redirect from Romanized Hindi)
    English and the Hindustani language. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching...
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    Movement, it was given preference over Hindi as their lingua franca and thus achieved official status in Pakistan. Hindi has drawn increasing focus as an academic...
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    Other languages spoken in Mauritius mainly include Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi-Urdu, Arabic language and Chinese. The Mauritian Sign Language is the language...
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  • Hindustani verbs (redirect from Hindi verbs)
    Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) verbs conjugate according to mood, tense, person, number, and gender. Hindustani inflection is markedly simpler in comparison...
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    the official language to Devanagari and adopt Hindi as the second official language on demand of Hindi activists. Muslim politician Sir Syed Ahmed Khan...
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