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  List of national languages of India - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
English is the Associate official language and the language to be used while communicating with the states.
Marwari — language of the Marwar Region in Rajasthan
Mahl — language of Minicoy, spoken in the island of Minicoy,
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 Hindostani - LoveToKnow 1911
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.
The expanding Midland language was stopped by the desert from reaching Sindhi, but to the south-west it found an unobstructed way into Gujarat, where, under the form of Gujarati, 1 "Hindostan" is a Persian word, and in modern Persian is pronounced "Hindustan." It means the country of the Hindus.
The other two languages define the fact that the subject is in the instrumental (or agent) case by the addition of the postposition ne, andc., an old form employed elsewhere to define the dative.
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 Indic - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages.
The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
This Indo-Aryan language is a combination of Persian and Arabic in its vocabulary with the grammar of the local dialects.
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 Indo-Aryan languages - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The earliest attestations of the group are in Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the oldest scriptures of India, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.
However, although this preserved the integrity of written language for a long time, the spoken language continues to evolve, and by the sixth century, Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare, being by and large replaced by its descendants, the Prakrits.
Hindustani (mixture of Urdu and Hindi) was replaced by 'Hindi' as the official language of India, and soon the Perso-Arabic words of Urdu began to be excised from the official Hindi corpus, in a bid to make the language more 'Indian'.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Indic   (612 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Hindi
It evolved from the Middle Indo-Aryan prakrit languages of the middle ages, and indirectly, from Sanskrit.
Hindi became the official language of India on January 26, 1965 and is the third most spoken language in the world, after Chinese and English.
Linguists think of Hindi and Urdu as the same language, the difference being that Hindi is written in Devanagari and draws vocabulary from Sanskrit, while Urdu is written in Arabic script and draws on Persian and Arabic.
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 Indo-Aryan languages - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The language of the Mitanni is of similar age, but is only attested fragmentary.
Apabramsa was the next modification in the spoken language, in a period broadly lasting from the fifth to the tenth century.
Hindustani (mixture of Urdu and Hindi) was replaced by 'Hindi' as the official language of India, and soon Perso-Arabic words began to be excised from the official Hindi corpus, in a bid to make the language more 'Indian'.
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 Cambridge Languages : The Language School - Speak a new language in 2 months
Assamese is the state language of Assam and is spoken by nearly 60 percent of the State's population.
In the south, Kannada is the State language of Karnataka and is spoken by 65 percent of the state's population.
Kashmiri is a language written in both Persio-Arabic and Devanagari script and is spoken by 55 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir.
www.cambridge.com.sg /languages/hindiv1.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Hindi Dialects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Despite the different languages and dialects, most of the official languages speakers have developed a standard of speaking language which has become the accepted style of speaking for that language.
Khariboli is the variation of Urdu/Hindi language that is used by the government and taught in schools.
Brajbhasa was the language of choice of the Bhakti movement, or the neo-Vaishnavite religions, the central deity of which was Krishna.
www.hindilanguage.org /hindi/dialects.asp   (336 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:bjj
Transitional Kanauji dialect is between Kanauji and Awadhi.
Lexical similarity 84% to 97% between all varieties of Kanauji, 72% to 76% with Bundeli, 70% to 78% with Braj Bhasha, 83% to 94% with Hindi.
Kanauji being used in various domains of daily life but there is a shift towards Hindi.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=bjj   (162 words)

  
 Hindi - Language Directory
Hindi is an Indo-European language, of the Indo-Iranian subfamily.
Khadiboli, the dialect spoken in Western Uttar Pradesh, east of Delhi is the basis for the language used by the government and taught in schools.
Language Technology Resource Center Hindi Dictionaries - The Shabdanjali English-Hindi E-Dictionary and downloadable Hindi dictionaries for English, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi, Calita Bengali, Dishi Bengali, also with an English-Telugu dictionary - all downloadable files are in.TGZ format, which are Gzip compressed files in Tar archive format.
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 Language in India
Wilson wishes to substitute a language which is still in a comparatively rudimentary state and is spoken little by the educated classes for one which ahs reached a high stage of development, and is far better suited for expressing the technicalities of legal phraseology and abstract or complex ideas in general.
When once an official language for records has been fixed on and in use for a long period, it is surely a doubtful policy to throw everything into confusion by the arbitrary substitution of a new language and character unless you can show overwhelming reasons for the adoption of the latter.
Even after English became the official language, the masses remained for a long time sunk in ignorance, and it was only in the last century that people began to turn their attention to the mental improvement of the great body of the nation.
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 Language and Scripts
The list is intentionally abbreviated for languages written in the Latin script: only a few of the more prominent languages are listed.
For less common languages it is often difficult to determine the precise list of characters used to write them.
The "Notes" field lists some countries in which the language is used, especially for lesser-known languages, but is not intended to be exhaustive.
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 Hindi Translation Service - English to Hindi Translation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Some estimates, put the total number of native speakers at about 500 million and the total number of people who understand the language may be as high as 800 million.
Hindi is the national language of India and is spoken by almost half a billion people in India and throughout the world and is the world’s second most spoken language.
Languages and dialects in the Western Hindi group are Hindustani, Haryanvi, Braj Bhasha, Kanauji, Bundeli; see separate entries.
www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/hindi_translation.shtml   (519 words)

  
 Facts about India-Indian languages
Some of these languages are accepted nationally while others are accepted as dialects of that particular region.
The former are spoken mainly in northern and central regions and the latter in southern India.
It is the oldest literary language of India, which is more than 5,000 years old and the basis of many modern Indian languages including Hindi and Urdu.
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 Bhojpuriya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After Thakur’s death in 1971, his theatre style and use of bhojpuri language are continually being abused by the music industry in producing bhojpuri songs and plays replete with sexual innuendo.
BHOJPURI is one of the popular languages of India, spoken mainly in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, western part of Bihar, Jharkhand, Nepal, Mauritius (national language), Guyana, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa.
The Bhojpuri of Allahabad and the surrounding areas is mixed with Awadhi; similarly, the Bhojpuri of Vaishali is influenced by Maithili and Bajjika.
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 Rescribe: Hindi Translation
Hindi is the first official language (there are 15) of the Republic of India.
In addition, the English language is still used for foreign affairs, commerce, higher education, and especially science and technology.
In addition to the importance of English in India, there are also many other languages in daily use—because of the difficulty of classifying the languages, estimates of their number range from a conservative 407 to an official 1,683.
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 Kanauji language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kanauji is a language (or dialect) of India, with about 6 million speakers in the Kanauj area of Uttar Pradesh.
Kanauji is closely related to Hindi, and some consider it to be a dialect of Hindi, while others consider it a separate Western Hindi language.
Kanauji has two dialects or variants of its own: Tirhari and Transitional Kanauji, which is between standard Kanauji and Awadhi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanauji_language   (97 words)

  
 HINDOSTANT LITERATURE - Online Information article about HINDOSTANT LITERATURE
This last word is in the form of a past tense, and it may be a secondary formation from asmi.
The rise and development of literary Urdu, beginning about the It is very difficult now to form a just estimate of the poem as end of the 16th century, and reaching its height during the 18th; literature.
Literary Urdu.—The origins of Urdu as a literary language are somewhat obscure.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HINDOSTANT_LITERATURE.html   (7240 words)

  
 Hindi - Gurupedia
Hindi became one of the official languages of India on January 26, 1965 and it is a minority language in a number of countries, including Fiji, Mauritius, Guyana,
Delhi is the basis for the language used by the government and taught in schools.
Hindi is the predominant language in the states and territories of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana,
www.gurupedia.com /h/hi/hindi.htm   (611 words)

  
 Devanagari - Crystalinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sanskrit, a classical Indian language and the parent of the Indo-Ayran languages.
Hindi is closely related to Urdu, the main language of Pakistan, which is written with the Arabic script.
Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 71 million people mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra and neighbouring states.
www.crystalinks.com /devanagari.html   (297 words)

  
 Indic_languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup 0f teh Indo-Iranian languages - thus belonging to teh Indo-European family 0f languages.
The language 0f teh Mitanni is 0f similar age - but is only attested fragmentarily.
However - although this preserved teh integrity 0f written language for a long time - teh spoken language continues to evolve - & by teh sixth century - Sanskrit as a spoken language was rare - being by & large replaced by its descendants - teh Prakrits.
www.demandtwinother.info /Indic_languages   (1093 words)

  
 List of national languages of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Additionally, it classifies a set of 22 scheduled languages which are languages that can be officially adopted by different states for administrative purposes, and also as a medium of communication between the national and the state governments, as also for examinations conducted for national government service.
However, due to protests from some states like Tamil Nadu where there is low Hindi penetration, the "twin language" system is still in vogue.
This is spoken largely in the Northern part of India.) '''Kanauji''' (language of Uttar Pradesh, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) '''Kutchi' (language of Kutch) '''Magahi''' (language of southern Bihar, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) '''Marwari''' (language of Rajasthan, often considered a sub-variety of Hindi) '''Tulu' (spoken by Tule people of Karnataka and Kerala)
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 The Invisible Majority: Hindi
I'm frequently amazed at the number of discussions on world language issues from which Hindi is entirely absent.
As ever, politics, not science, dominate the debate over which traditions are Hindi dialects and which are independent languages.
Official language of the Indian civil service since 1949, Hindi was recognised by the 1950 Constitution as "official language of the Union," notwithstanding India's overwhelming linguistic diversity.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/world_languages/78768   (469 words)

  
 Nagari Languages
Main languages of India are Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Chhattisgarhi, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Hindi is the official language of India and referred as 'Raj-Bhasha' (language of the state).
Though the languages of the 4th category uses Nagari as second script but a lot of words of the these languages are similar to Hindi!
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 The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles
The 8.7 million Kanauji (also known as the Western Hindi) are located mainly in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Not enough is known about the Kanauji to accurately place them in the caste system; thus, their particular lifestyle cannot be adequately described.
The Kanauji are 99.5% Hindu and follow the basic Hindu customs and traditions.
www.global12project.com /2004/profiles/p_code4/652.html   (812 words)

  
 rocksea » india
In Sanskrit "Namas" means, "bow, obeisance, reverential salutation." It comes from the root Nam, which carries meanings of bending, bowing, humbly submitting and becoming silent.
In simple language, namaste is "a hello with a respect".
The Goddess Benten-sama, worshipped all over Japan is actually the Indian Goddess Sarasvati; Buddhist sutras and “magical language” used on sacred memorials is actually an altered form of Indian Sanskrit.
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 William Carey, D. D. (1761-1834): works/ Bible Translations
Brief View of the Baptist Missions and Translations with Specimens of Various Languages in which the Scriptures are Printing at the Mission Press, Serampore.
Accompanied with a Map, Illustrative of the Different Stations and the Countries in which the Languages are Spoken.
Fac-Simile of Specimens of the Sacred Scriptures in the Eastern Languages, Translated by the Brethren of the Serampore Mission; and of Several Others.
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 Hindu - The Wordlist Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hindi language, official language of the Republic of India, a central Indo-Aryan language claimed as a mother tongue by more than 150,000,000 speakers.
Literary Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, shows a strong influence of Sanskrit as a source for borrowings; it is based on the Khari Boli dialect, to the north and east of Delhi.
Also commonly treated as dialects of Hindi are Braj Bhasa, which was an important literary medium from the 15th to the 17th century; Avadhi, also a literary medium; and Bagheli, Chattisgarhi, Bundeli, and Kanauji.
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