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| | HINDOSTANI - LoveToKnow Article on HINDOSTANI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | The language of this tract is called Western Hindi; to its west we have Panjabi (of the Central Punjab), and to the east, reaching as far as Benares, Eastern Hindi, both Intermediate languages. |
 | | It is not a typical dialect of that language, for, situated where it is, it represents Western Hindi merging into Panjabi (Braj Bhasha being admittedly the standard of the language), but to say that it is a mongrel tongue thrown together in the market is to reverse the order of events. |
 | | It was the natural language of the people in the neighborhood of Delhi, who formed the bulk of those who resorted to the bazaar, and hence it became the bazaar language. |
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