Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (Prakritised and Sanskritised register written in the Brahmic script) and Urdu (Persianised and Arabised register …

Hindustani language, lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan. Two variants of Hindustani, Urdu and Hindi, are official languages in Pakistan and India, respectively.

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani-speaking community ...

The meaning of HINDUSTANI is a group of Indo-Aryan dialects of northern India of which literary Hindi and Urdu are considered diverse written forms.

Early forms of present-day Hindustani developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhraṃśa vernaculars of present-day North India in the 7th–13th centuries, chiefly the Dehlavi dialect of the Western Hindi …

During this period, Hindustani was used by Sufis in promulgating their message across the Indian subcontinent. After the advent of the Mughals in the subcontinent, Hindustani acquired more Persian …

The everyday speech of well over 50,000,000 persons of all communities in the north of India and in West Pakistan is the expression of a common language, Hindustani.

Oct 31, 2025 · Hindustani, or Urdu (i.e., camp language), is a dialect of Hindi, differing from it in its large admixture of Persian words, and in that it is usually printed in Persian or Arabic characters, while …

the vernacular dialects of Hindustani as spoken throughout India, the neutralised form of Hindustani used in popular television and films, or the more formal neutralised form of Hindustani used in …

Hindustani is a language often described as a precursor to modern Hindi and Urdu, sharing a common grammatical structure and historical roots, while differing in vocabulary.