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...

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...

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...

is abandoned. Khariboli is related to four registers of Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan: Standard Hindi, Standard Urdu, Dakhini...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

became very popular, especially among common people. It functioned as a lingua franca throughout the northern half of the Indian subcontinent. Abahatta...

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...

to as Língua Canarim by the Portuguese and Língua Brahmana by Catholic missionaries. The Portuguese later started referring to Konkani as Língua Concanim...

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...

districts. In these three districts along with Standard Bengali, it serves as a lingua franca among the multiethnic communities of inhabitants residing there such...

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...

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...

John D. Smith: Rajasthani, 1970–present J. C. Sharma: Gade lohar, Bagri or Bhili, Gojri, 1970–present Kali Charan Bahl: Rajasthani, 1971–1989 Christopher...

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...

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....

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...

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...

stage. Some elements of Hindustani appear ... the distinct form of the lingua franca Hindustani appears in the writings of Amir Khusro (1253–1325), who...

family of languages. Nefamese emerged in eastern Arunachal Pradesh as a lingua franca among the Nyishi, Adi, Apatanai, Khampti, Hill Miri, Idu Mishimi...