A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...
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Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari script...
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Hindustani language (redirect from Hindi/Urdu)
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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This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language...
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sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region. The term "Hindi belt" is sometimes...
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Central Indo-Aryan languages (redirect from Western Hindi language)
the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone includes the Dehlavi (Delhi) dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca...
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Portuguese language (redirect from Língua portuguesa)
Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...
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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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Partition). Apart from this, Hindustani forms the lingua franca in a large region in Pakistan and North India (Hindi Belt) and the trade language in Andaman and...
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Kodava), were brought from South India. By this time Fiji Hindi was well established as the lingua franca of Indo-Fijians and the Southern Indian labourers...
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Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006 with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen...
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film industry); both produced films in Hindustani (also known as Hindi-Urdu), the lingua franca of northern and central India. Another centre of Hindustani-language...
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Hindustani language, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan In an intermediate sense, Central Indo-Aryan languages, also called Hindi languages In the...
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Urdu (category Lingua francas)
language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English...
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popular was Hindi, spoken by around 30% of India's population. Jawaharlal Nehru – the prime minister of India at the time – viewed a lingua franca as necessary...
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Hindi is one of the official languages in the Indian state of Bihar. Although Hindustani is the lingua-franca of the region, the majority of the people...
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Hindustani grammar (redirect from Hindustānī (Hindī-Urdū) grammar)
Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu. Grammatical differences between the two...
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southern India, and by names such as Hindi, Hindavi, and Hindustani in northern India and elsewhere, it emerged as a lingua franca across much of India and...
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Languages of Fiji (section Hindi)
speak Fiji-Hindi. English was the sole official language until 1997 and is widely used in government, business, and education as a lingua franca. Considerable...
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Caribbean Hindustani (redirect from Caribbean Hindi language)
Suriname after Dutch and Sranan Tongo (the two lingua francas). It developed as a fusion of Bihari and Eastern Hindi languages, specifically Bhojpuri, Awadhi...
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Gujarati is the official language and the lingua franca of the Indian state of Gujarat as well as the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman...
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Hindustani declension (redirect from Declension in Hindi)
of participles, converbs and absolute constructions in Hindi and Medieval Rajasthani". Lingua Posnaniensis. 58: 105–120. doi:10.1515/linpo-2016-0007....
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between multiple ethnic groups in the country, has served as a historical lingua franca between different linguistic groups in the region and is the most...
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Hindustani vocabulary (redirect from Hindi vocabulary)
historical point of view, the Hindustani-Hindi-Urdu complex developed out of a common broadly-spoken lingua franca that came to be used through much of...
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Hinglish (redirect from Romanized Hindi)
environment". Lingua et Linguistica. 1 (2). Journal of Language and Linguistics: 112–6. ISBN 978-1-84799-129-4. Shanker, Sadhna. "Meanwhile: A mix of Hindi, English...
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Deccani language (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
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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Hindustani phonology (redirect from Hindi phonology)
delimiters. Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language...
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Austroasiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages. English is considered the international lingua franca of the South Asian countries. Since the colonial era, the South Asian...
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estimates the ten most spoken languages (L1 + L2) in 2022 as follows: Lingua franca Lists of languages List of languages by number of native speakers...
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a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs...
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