Kauravi

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Kauravi is a dialect of Hindi-Urdu historically spoken in the Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh region, considered a major basis for the standard Hindi register.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Kauravi Hindi 2
Kauravi canonical 1
Kauravi Hindustani 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language variety
dialect
basisOf Khari Boli
surface form: Standard Hindi
closelyRelatedTo Braj Bhasha
Haryanvi
Khari Boli
country India
developedFrom Old Western Hindi varieties
hasAlternativeName Kauravi
surface form: Kauravi Hindi

Kauravi
surface form: Kauravi Hindustani

Kauravi boli
Kauravi dialect
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in perfective aspects
grammatical gender
postpositions instead of prepositions
retroflex consonants
hasStatus non-standardized variety
historicallySpokenIn Delhi Sultanate
surface form: Delhi Sultanate region

Mughal capital region
influenced Khari Boli
standardized Hindustani
isBasisFor urban Hindi of Delhi
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
overlapsWith Khari Boli speech area
Western Hindi dialect zone
partOf Khari Boli
surface form: Hindi-Urdu continuum

Hindustani language
region Indo-Gangetic Plain
spokenIn Delhi
Haryana
National Capital Region of India
surface form: National Capital Region of Delhi

Western Uttar Pradesh
parts of Rajasthan
parts of Uttarakhand
standardFormOf rural speech around Delhi
subclassOf Hindi dialect
Hindustani dialect
Western Hindi
usedAs vernacular language
usedBy rural communities in Delhi region
rural communities in western Uttar Pradesh
writingSystem Devanagari script
Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Khari Boli hasAlternativeName Kauravi
this entity surface form: Kauravi Hindi
Kauravi hasAlternativeName Kauravi
this entity surface form: Kauravi Hindi
Kauravi hasAlternativeName Kauravi
this entity surface form: Kauravi Hindustani