Hindustani language

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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.

All labels observed (4)

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

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (75)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
lingua franca
alsoKnownAs Hindavi
linked to: Hindi

Hindui
Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language

Hindustani Hindi
linked to: Hindustani language

Hindustani Urdu
linked to: Urdu language

Khari Boli
Rekhta
linked to: Rekhta (early Urdu)
basedOnDialect Khariboli dialect
linked to: Khari Boli
closelyRelatedTo Awadhi language
Bhojpuri language
linked to: Bhojpuri
hasGrammaticalFeature SOV word order
ergative alignment in perfective aspect
postpositions
hasLiteraryTradition Hindi literature
Urdu literature
hasPart Hindi language
linked to: Hindi

Urdu language
hasPhonologicalFeature aspirated consonants
contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasRegister Persianised Urdu
Sanskritised Hindi
linked to: Khari Boli
hasStandardizedForm Hindi language
linked to: Hindi

Urdu language
historicalOrigin Delhi region
historicalPeriodOfFormation Mughal era
linked to: Mughal period
ISO639_3Code hin
urd
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European languages
Indo-Iranian languages
majorInfluenceFrom Apabhramsha
Arabic
Persian
linked to: Persian language

Prakrit languages
Sanskrit
officialStatusIn India (as Hindi)
Pakistan (as Urdu)
linked to: Pakistan
primaryScriptForHindi Devanagari script
primaryScriptForUrdu Nastaliq script
linked to: Taliq script
region Northern India
linked to: northern India

Pakistan
South Asia
spokenIn Bangladesh
Canada
Fiji
Guyana
linked to: British Guiana

India
Mauritius
Nepal
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Suriname
Trinidad and Tobago
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
standardForm Modern Standard Hindi
linked to: Hindi

Modern Standard Urdu
linked to: Urdu language
subclassOf Central Zone Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Iranian languages
New Indo-Aryan languages
usedAsLinguaFrancaIn North India
linked to: northern India

Pakistan
usedInMediaOf Bollywood film industry
linked to: Bollywood cinema

Pakistani film industry
linked to: Pakistani cinema
usedInMusicGenre Bollywood music
Ghazal
Qawwali
writingSystem Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Perso-Arabic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Landa scripts associatedWithLanguage Hindustani language
Khusrav Mirza languageSpoken Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Azam Shah languageSpoken Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Frontier Gandhi languageSpoken Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Central Zone of Indo-Aryan languages hasMember Hindustani language
Kauravi partOf Hindustani language
Emperor of Hindustan hasLanguage Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Awadh Subah hasLanguage Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Indian Ocean contact varieties of Hindi hasBaseLanguage Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Gauhar Ara Begum language Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Hindustani language alsoKnownAs Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Hindustani language alsoKnownAs Hindustani Hindi
linked to: Hindustani language
Western Hindi hasDialect Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Western Hindi hasStandardForm Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Mihr-un-Nissa language Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Hazrat Begum languageOfEnvironment Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
British colonial authorities in India usedLocalLanguagesForAdministration Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
Central Indo-Aryan languages majorLanguage Hindustani
linked to: Hindustani language
BharatBenz brandNameMeaning Bharat means India in Hindi
linked to: Hindustani language