Indian Ocean contact varieties of Hindi

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Indian Ocean contact varieties of Hindi are a group of Hindi-based contact languages that developed through historical trade, migration, and colonial-era interactions around the Indian Ocean rim, incorporating features from local and colonial languages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hindi-based contact language continuum
language group
developedThrough colonial-era transportation of indentured laborers
diasporic settlement
labor migration
maritime trade
multilingual contact in port cities
hasBaseLanguage Hindi
Hindustani language
surface form: Hindustani
hasContactLanguage Arabic
English
Gujarati
Malay
Persian language
surface form: Persian

Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

Swahili language
surface form: Swahili

Tamil
local Austronesian languages
local Bantu languages
hasFeature code-switching with colonial languages
innovative pronoun systems
lexical borrowing from local languages
phonological influence from substrate languages
restructured verb phrase patterns
simplified morphology compared to standard Hindi
hasLinguisticFamily Indo-Aryan languages
hasMacroArea Indian Ocean Region
surface form: Indian Ocean region
hasRegion Arabian Peninsula
East Africa
Indian subcontinent coastal areas
Persian Gulf
Southeast Asia
islands of the Indian Ocean
hasSociolinguisticStatus diaspora vernacular
heritage language variety
trade lingua franca
influencedBy colonial language policies
indentured labor systems
maritime trade networks
subclassOf Indo-Aryan-based contact language
contact language
timePeriod 19th century
20th century
early modern period
usedBy Indian diaspora
surface form: Indian diaspora communities

mixed-heritage communities around the Indian Ocean
usedInDomain family and community interaction
informal communication
marketplaces and trade

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