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Lakh and crore are common enough to have entered Indian English. For number 0, Modern Standard Hindi is more inclined towards śūnya (a Sanskrit tatsama) and Standard Urdu is more inclined towards sifr (borrowed from Arabic), while the native tadbhava-form is sunnā in Hindustani.
The Indian and most English systems both use the decimal point and the comma digit-separator, while other languages and countries using the Western numbering system use the decimal comma and the thin space or point to group digits. [2] There are terms for numbers larger than 1 crore as well, but these are not commonly used.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Hindi and Urdu on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi.
The number of English-medium school students in India increased from over 15 million in 2008–09 to 29 million by 2013–14. [16] According to the 2011 Census, 129 million Indians (10.6%) spoke English. 259,678 (0.02%) Indians spoke English as their first language. [1]
American Sign Language (ASL) The visual language of deaf communities across the US and most of English-speaking Canada. A complete language that is expressed via facial expression plus hand movements.
A number of words of French origin feature a final e that is pronounced in English but silent in the original language. For example, the noun cache is sometimes pronounced / k æ ʃ eɪ /, as though it were spelled either cachet (meaning "seal" or "signature") or caché (meaning "hidden").
A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.