Hindi (disambiguation)
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- Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language or languages descended from Sanskrit, defined with various degrees of scope:
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- In the narrowest and in English perhaps most common sense, Hindi is Modern Standard Hindi, a literary style and standardized register of Hindustani.
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- In a slightly broader sense, Hindi is spoken Hindustani, as used for example in Hindi Cinema (Bollywood). In this sense Hindi is essentially the same as Urdu.
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- In an intermediate sense, Hindi is the Central Zone dialects of Western Hindi (including Hindustani) and Eastern Hindi (including Fijian Hindi).
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- In the widest sense, "Hindi" covers the language varieties of the so-called Hindi belt: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (including Caribbean Hindustani but sometimes excluding Bhojpuri and Maithili), Pahari (excluding Nepali and in recent years Dogri), and often Rajasthani.
Historical Usage
- Historically, Hindi may refer to any Central-Zone Indic literary dialect (Khari Boli), including Urdu, Braj Bhasha, and Awadhi.
Other Usages
The term Hindi may also refer to:
- Bombay Hindi
- Haflong Hindi
- Fiji Hindi
- Urdu (in Malaysia)
- Caribbean Hindustani
The word Hindi is cognate with Hindu, India, Indus and Sindh.
See also
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