Hindustani language

E334228

Indo-Aryan language lingua franca

The Hindustani language is a major Indo-Aryan language of South Asia that encompasses the closely related standardized forms of Hindi and Urdu and serves as a key lingua franca across northern India and Pakistan.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Hindustani	14
Hindustani language canonical	3
Bharat means India in Hindi	1
Hindustani Hindi	1

Statements (75)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-Aryan language ⓘ lingua franca ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Hindi ⓘ surface form: Hindavi Hindui ⓘ Hindustani language ⓘ surface form: Hindustani Hindustani language ⓘ surface form: Hindustani Hindi Urdu language ⓘ surface form: Hindustani Urdu Khari Boli ⓘ Rekhta (early Urdu) ⓘ surface form: Rekhta
basedOnDialect	Khari Boli ⓘ surface form: Khariboli dialect
closelyRelatedTo	Awadhi language ⓘ Bhojpuri ⓘ surface form: Bhojpuri language
hasGrammaticalFeature	SOV word order ⓘ ergative alignment in perfective aspect ⓘ postpositions ⓘ
hasLiteraryTradition	Hindi literature ⓘ Urdu literature ⓘ
hasPart	Hindi ⓘ surface form: Hindi language Urdu language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	aspirated consonants ⓘ contrastive vowel length ⓘ retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasRegister	Persianised Urdu ⓘ Khari Boli ⓘ surface form: Sanskritised Hindi
hasStandardizedForm	Hindi ⓘ surface form: Hindi language Urdu language ⓘ
historicalOrigin	Delhi region ⓘ
historicalPeriodOfFormation	Mughal period ⓘ surface form: Mughal era
ISO639_3Code	hin ⓘ urd ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ
majorInfluenceFrom	Apabhramsha ⓘ Arabic ⓘ Persian language ⓘ surface form: Persian Prakrit languages ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ
officialStatusIn	India (as Hindi) ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ surface form: Pakistan (as Urdu)
primaryScriptForHindi	Devanagari script ⓘ
primaryScriptForUrdu	Taliq script ⓘ surface form: Nastaliq script
region	northern India ⓘ surface form: Northern India Pakistan ⓘ South Asia ⓘ
spokenIn	People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Canada ⓘ Fiji ⓘ British Guiana ⓘ surface form: Guyana India ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Nepal ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Suriname ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
standardForm	Hindi ⓘ surface form: Modern Standard Hindi Urdu language ⓘ surface form: Modern Standard Urdu
subclassOf	Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ surface form: Central Zone Indo-Aryan languages Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ New Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn	northern India ⓘ surface form: North India Pakistan ⓘ
usedInMediaOf	Bollywood cinema ⓘ surface form: Bollywood film industry Pakistani cinema ⓘ surface form: Pakistani film industry
usedInMusicGenre	Bollywood music ⓘ South Asian ghazal tradition ⓘ surface form: Ghazal Qawwali ⓘ
writingSystem	Devanagari script ⓘ Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script Perso-Arabic script ⓘ