hindi

n. the main language spoken in northern and central India.

n. Modern Standard Hindi, a standardized register of the Hindustani language and one of the official languages of India.

“She is learning to speak Hindi because she wants to work in Delhi.”

“While Hindi is the primary language of administration in the north, many citizens in southern India speak it only as a third or fourth language.”

adj. describing something written in or related to the Hindi language.

adj. relating to the Hindi language, its literature, or its speakers.

“The hotel provided a Hindi newspaper for the guests from Mumbai.”

“The professor specialized in Hindi literature, focusing specifically on poetry from the early twentieth century.”

n. a group of related languages and local ways of speaking in northern India.

n. a collective term for the diverse Central Zone Indo-Aryan dialects spoken across the 'Hindi Belt' of northern India.

“Linguists study different Hindi dialects to see how they change across the country.”

“Linguistic surveys often distinguish between Western and Eastern Hindi, noting significant phonological differences between the two dialect clusters.”

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