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    The Shina (Shina: ݜݨیاٗ, Ṣiṇyaá) or Gilgitis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group primarily residing in Gilgit–Baltistan and Indus Kohistan in Pakistan...
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    Saraiki, Sindhi, Baluchi and Pashto, while more than 70 other languages like Shina, Balti, Gujarati, Bengali etc. are also spoken. Sinhala and Tamil are the...
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    Voiced retroflex fricative (category Articles containing Shina-language text)
    Retrieved 14 January 2022. Ziya, Muhammad Amin, Prof. (2010, October). Gilti Shina Urdu Dictionary / ݜِناٗ - اُردو لغت. Publisher: Zia Publications, Gilgit...
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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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    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 (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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    Another name, used by Leitner in 1880, is Arnyiá or Arniya, derived from the Shina language name for the part of the Yasin (a valley in Gilgit-Baltistan) where...
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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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    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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    Hindkowans/Hazarewals, Brahuis, Meos, and Kohistanis with significant numbers of Shina, Baltis, Kashmiris, Paharis, Chitralis, Torwalis, Hazaras, Burusho, Wakhis...
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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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  • climate remains moderate all year round. Khowar, Shina, Burushaski, Gujri and Wakhi are the lingua franca of Pakkora. As much as 60% of this village...
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    are Indo-European. One of these languages, English, is the de facto world lingua franca, with an estimate of over one billion second language speakers. Indo-European...
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    people; with significant numbers of Kashmiris, Brahuis, Hindkowans, Paharis, Shina people, Burusho people, Wakhis, Baltis, Chitralis, and other minorities...
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    ISBN 978-0-8166-9911-7. Retrieved 13 July 2023. "cafuzo". Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (Online ed.). Lisbon: Priberam. 2008–2021. Retrieved 7 January...
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    Vocabolario della lingua italiana (in Italian). Treccani. Retrieved 24 May 2023. Nicola Zingarelli, lo Zingarelli 2001. Vocabolario della lingua italiana, "Polentone"...
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    southern Italians themselves. According to the Grande dizionario della lingua italiana ("Great Dictionary of the Italian Language" GDLI), the term terrone...
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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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  • nominalized without morphological transformation. For instance in Eastern Shina (Gultari) the finite clause [mo buje-m] 'I will go' can appear as the nominalized...
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    largest number of first-language speakers in India today, serves as the lingua franca across much of northern and central India. However, there have been...
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    State. University of Chicago for the Human Relations Area Files. p. 179. Shina is the most eastern of these languages and in some of its dialects such...
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    Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It serves as a lingua franca in parts of the Northeast India from a long time, in Arunachal Pradesh...
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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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    local language is Shina, an Indo-Aryan language. The Shina spoken at Mayoon is a regional dialect which diverges somewhat from the Shina spoken in nearby...
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  • language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups. Bemba is one of the spoken languages...
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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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  • 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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  • 24 September 2018. Battaglia, Salvatore (1961). Grande dizionario della lingua italiana, UTET, Torino, V. XX, pp.961-962 wop. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology...
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    Gilgit-Baltistan (category Articles containing Shina-language text)
    religion). Dards are found mainly in the western areas. These people are the Shina-speaking peoples of Gilgit, Chilas, Astore and Diamir, while in Hunza and...
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    Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region. The term "Hindi belt" is sometimes also used to refer...
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