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  2. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    The original Hindi dialects continued to develop alongside Urdu and according to Professor Afroz Taj, "the distinction between Hindi and Urdu was chiefly a question of style. A poet could draw upon Urdu's lexical richness to create an aura of elegant sophistication, or could use the simple rustic vocabulary of dialect Hindi to evoke the folk ...

  3. Nagpuri language - Wikipedia

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    Nagpuri language writers are in favour of using Nagpuri as the name of the language. There is an opposition against the use of the word Sadri and giving two names Sadan/Sadri and Nagpuria, to a single language in the upcoming Indian census. According to them, the name of the language is Nagpuri and the native speakers of the language are known ...

  4. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    Karma. from Sanskrit, the result of a person's actions as well as the actions themselves. It is a term about the cycle of cause and effect. Kedgeree. from Hindi खिचड़ी, Kedgeree is thought to have originated with the Indian rice-and-bean or rice-and-lentil dish khichri, traced back to 1340 or earlier.

  5. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    Hinglish. Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of English and the Hindustani language. [1][2][3][4][5] Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. [6] In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.

  6. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.

  7. Category:Hindi words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; Help ... Pages in category "Hindi words and phrases" The following 99 pages are in this category, out of 99 total.

  8. Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is a Central Indo-Aryan language based on Khari Boli (Khaṛi Boli). Its origin, development, and function reflect the dynamics of the sociolinguistic contact situation from which it emerged as a colloquial speech. It is inextricably linked with the emergence and standardisation of Urdu and Hindi.

  9. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal.