dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca of Northern India that is the basis of the Modern Standard Hindi...
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primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan. Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts...
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in Jammu and Kashmir). The largest language that is not "scheduled" is Bhili (0.95%), followed by Gondi (0.27%), Tulu (0.17%) and Kurukh (0.099%) Divehi...
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is abandoned. Khariboli is related to four registers of Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan: Standard Hindi, Standard Urdu, Dakhini...
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Sanskrit at a mother tongue level. It is also difficult to accept that the lingua franca of the rural masses is Sanskrit, when most the majority of L1, L2...
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Urdu (category Lingua francas)
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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cuius regio, eius religio to the National Principle of cuius regio, eius lingua? Journal of Globalization Studies. Volume 2, Number 1, May 2011 [2] Matras...
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Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region. The term "Hindi belt" is sometimes also used to refer...
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Nepali language (category Lingua francas)
official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a lingua franca. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in...
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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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Hindustani language (category Lingua francas)
Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan, and functioning as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani people. Hindustani...
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Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It serves as a lingua franca of the wider region and has over 15 million native speakers according...
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the official language of the state being English, Nagamese functions as a lingua franca and is spoken by nearly all Nagaland inhabitants. It is also used...
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to their cultural proximity, meanwhile Standard Hindi also serves as the lingua franca of the region. As a result, Hindi, rather than Awadhi, is used for...
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Chota Nagpur plateau. In addition to native speakers, it is also used as a lingua franca by many tribal groups such as the Kurukh, a Dravidian ethnic group...
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atolls of the south who acquired education there used Addu dialect as their lingua franca. Hence, when for example one of these islanders of any of the Huvadhu...
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became very popular, especially among common people. It functioned as a lingua franca throughout the northern half of the Indian subcontinent. Abahatta...
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development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under the Delhi and Bahmani Sultanates, as trade and migration from...
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to as Língua Canarim by the Portuguese and Língua Brahmana by Catholic missionaries. The Portuguese later started referring to Konkani as Língua Concanim...
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Hindi (category Lingua francas)
script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...
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districts. In these three districts along with Standard Bengali, it serves as a lingua franca among the multiethnic communities of inhabitants residing there such...
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as they favored English as a way out. Around the mid to late 1960s the lingua franca of Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonians switched from Trinidadian Hindustani...
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largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India. However, there have been...
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John D. Smith: Rajasthani, 1970–present J. C. Sharma: Gade lohar, Bagri or Bhili, Gojri, 1970–present Kali Charan Bahl: Rajasthani, 1971–1989 Christopher...
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now live in. First-generation Indians in Fiji, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk". It is closely...
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of Pakistani Balochistan: A preliminary description". Lingua. 191–192: 3–21. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2016.12.003. ISSN 0024-3841. Burling, Robbins. 1970....
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46,000 people (as of 2001), primarily Hindus, but it is also used as a lingua franca of the Saraz region and so is also spoken as a second language by...
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Pāli Literature and Language, suggested that Pali may have originated as a lingua franca or common language of culture among people who used differing dialects...
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stage. Some elements of Hindustani appear ... the distinct form of the lingua franca Hindustani appears in the writings of Amir Khusro (1253–1325), who...
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family of languages. Nefamese emerged in eastern Arunachal Pradesh as a lingua franca among the Nyishi, Adi, Apatanai, Khampti, Hill Miri, Idu Mishimi...
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