of the hymns recorded in the Adi Granth has been called "Sant Bhasha," a kind of lingua franca used by the medieval saint-poets of northern India. But...

literature, written by Amir Khusrau, through combining the Old Hindi language Braj Bhasha (Hindavi) and Persian. This Persianised combination was later known as...

"mellifluousness and soft fluency" of Braj Bhasha. On the other hand, Khariboli supporters sometimes pejoratively referred to Braj Bhasha and other dialects as Pariboli...

a lingua franca to the Hindus. — Jules Bloch The book was inspired stylistically by the Caurāsī Vaiṣṇavan kī Vārtā, a 17th-18th century Braj Bhasha text...

Mumbai and neighbouring urban regions in Maharashtra.[citation needed] Braj Bhasha (1.6 m), spoken in western Uttar Pradesh and adjacent districts of Rajasthan...

during Mughal rule led to its use by poets, 14th to 18th centuries) Braj Bhasha (the second of two major literary traditions in early modern Northern...

Shauraseni Prakrit, Eastern Hindi from Ardhamagadhi Prakrit. Western Hindi Braj (1.6 m), spoken in western Uttar Pradesh and adjacent districts of Rajasthan...

primarily written in other varieties of Hindi, particularly Avadhi and Braj Bhasha, but to a degree also in Delhavi, the basis for Standard Hindi. During...

cbfcindia.gov.in. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. "Braj Bhasha: Braj Bhasha language - Audio Bible stories and lessons. Evangelism tools, church...

Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bhasha and Maithili. Nepali speakers and Senas had a close connect, subsequently, the language became the lingua franca in the area...

Indo-Aryan Western Hindi languages 240 M Hindi 9.8 M Haryanvi 1.5 M Braj Bhasha 9.5 M Kanauji 5.6 M Bundeli Eastern Hindi languages 4.5 M Awadhi 18.2...

colloquial Hindustani, Bombay Hindi, Urdu, Awadhi, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri, and Braj Bhasha, along with Punjabi and with the liberal use of English or Hinglish in...

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...

Punjabi, Lahnda, regional Prakrits, Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Hindi languages (Braj Bhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali...

Gift of English. Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. p. 175. ISBN 978-8125036012. Braj Kachru (1986). The Alchemy of English: The Spread, Functions, and Models...

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...

those who left as indentured laborers during the colonial era. Along with Braj, it was used widely as a literary vehicle before gradually merging and contributing...

S.A.H.; Gargesh, Ravinder (2008). "4. Persian in South Asia". In Kachru, Braj B. (ed.). Language in South Asia. Kachru, Yamuna & Sridhar, S.N. Cambridge...

lost. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 115. ISBN 9780520255609. Braj B. Kachru; Yamuna Kachru; S. N. Sridhar (2008). Language in South Asia. Cambridge...

several Śauraseni dialects were elevated to literary languages, including Braj Bhasha and the Khari Boli of Delhi. During the reigns of the Turko-Afghan Delhi...

standardized literary register of the Delhi dialect arose in the 19th century; the Braj dialect was the dominant literary language in the Devanagari script up until...

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...

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...

became very popular, especially amongst common people, functioning as a lingua franca throughout the north of the Indian subcontinent. Abahatta, which...

Before British colonisation, the Persian language was the lingua franca of the Indian subcontinent and a widely used official language in North India....

of India. In May 2015, a senior member of the pressure group Rajasthani Bhasha Manyata Samiti said at a New Delhi press conference: "Twelve years have...

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...

conferred Bhasha Samman on two Garhwali writers: Sudama Prasad 'Premi' and Premlal Bhatt. The Sahitya Akademi also organized "Garhwali Bhasha Sammelan"(Garhwali...

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...

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...