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    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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  • 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 the standardised variety of the Hindustani language...
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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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    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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    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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    Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula...
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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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  • 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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    languages are spoken on the Andaman Islands. Historically, Sanskrit was the lingua franca of South Asia. In the Indo-Muslim period, Persian became a connecting...
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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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  • 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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    Urdu (category Lingua francas)
    Arabic and Hindi/Urdu. Strnad, Jaroslav (2013). Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī: Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr vānī Poems from Rājasthān. Brill...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • language speakers, and 31.2 million are third language speakers. Hindi is the lingua franca of the northern part of India, along with Pakistan (as Urdu)...
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