A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language written in Devanagari script...

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...

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...

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...

the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone includes the Dehlavi (Delhi) dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca...

Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hindustani language, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan In an intermediate sense, Central Indo-Aryan languages, also called Hindi languages In the...

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...

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...

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...

Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu. Grammatical differences between the two...

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...

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...

Suriname after Dutch and Sranan Tongo (the two lingua francas). It developed as a fusion of Bihari and Eastern Hindi languages, specifically Bhojpuri, Awadhi...

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...

of participles, converbs and absolute constructions in Hindi and Medieval Rajasthani". Lingua Posnaniensis. 58: 105–120. doi:10.1515/linpo-2016-0007....

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...

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...

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...

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...

delimiters. Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language...

Austroasiatic, and Tibeto-Burman languages. English is considered the international lingua franca of the South Asian countries. Since the colonial era, the South Asian...

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...

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...