George A. Grierson. Standard Rajasthani or Standard Marwari, a version of Rajasthani, the common lingua franca of Rajasthani people and is spoken by over...
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(Brajbhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi, Deccani), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian, and Arabic. While vocabulary from all of these languages...
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8 M: Khortha 5.1 M: Nagpuri 0.5 M: Kurmali Rajasthani languages 7.8 M Marwari-Merwari 5.2 M Malvi 2.3 M Nimadi 4.8M Lambadi 2.9 M Harauti 3 M Godwari...
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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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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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languages (Braj Bhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian and Arabic. Copies in these languages often have the...
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the Indo-European language family. Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is...
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Urdu and Gujarati are spoken by 11.73% and 11.45% respectively. Tamil, Marwari, Bhojpuri, Telugu, Konkani, Bengali and Malayalam are other minority languages...
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language is Hindi. Some residents speak Maithili, Bhojpuri, Urdu, Bengali, or Marwari. Raniganj has the biggest zoo of Bihar (Vriksha Vatika) Raniganj has one...
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regional and tribal languages including Rajasthani varieties such as Mewari, Marwari, Hadoti etc. The Sindhi-language film industry is largely based in Sindh...
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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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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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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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Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Awadhi, Odia, Maithili, Punjabi, Marwari, Kashmiri, Assamese (Asamiya), Chhattisgarhi and Sindhi. Aside from the...
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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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Other communities are the Bengalis, Marwaris, Anglo-Indians, Han Chinese, Biharis and Tibetans. Nepali is the lingua franca of Darjeeling, and is spoken...
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presidency, nearly 85% of whom were Muslims. The tea planters and immigrant Marwari businessmen, who needed workers, also welcomed the migrants. Early establishments...
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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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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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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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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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Kannaujis, Kauravis, Pashtuns, Nagpuris, Kurukhs, Haryanvis, Gujaratis, Marwari, Sadans, Chhattisgarhis, Kashmiris, Dogras, Punjabis, Marathis, Odias,...
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dialects spoken in the wider region where Bhadarwahi proper is used as a lingua franca. In addition to Bhadarwahi proper, this group also includes Bhalesi...
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numbers. There are also sizable population of Nepalis, Bengalis, Tamils and Marwaris living in Manipur.[citation needed][verification needed] The distribution...
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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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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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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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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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