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Hindi: The Language of Songs - English
URL: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindiint.html

Statistics, Hindi-speaking regions, dialects (with maps), a brief history; songs; poets and other authors; links.

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MINDATLAS.COM - The Evolution of Hindi - A Brief Introduction - English
URL: http://www.healthekids.net/course.phtml?course_id=865

Hindi is the language of close to half of the population of the Indian subcontinent. It is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mostly in the north of the subcontinent, stretching from Rajasthan to Bihar, and Nepal to Madhya Pradesh.

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Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani, khaRî bolî - English
URL: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/yahyam/page26/hindustani.htm

The vernacular language native to the Delhi-Agra area of northern India that developed in the Middle Ages is basically known as khaRî bolî ('upright speech' — hence 'standard speech'). Urdu and Hindi are indeed the same language: khaRî bolî. Literary Urdu is not "Persian with Hindi grammar"; it is khaRî bolî with a lot of Persian loanwards (but by no means exclusively Persian vocabulary). Literary Hindi is khaRî bolî with a lot of Sanskrit loanwords. It is not entirely unintelligible to Urdu speakers; no more so than scholarly English with lots of Latin & Greek vocabulary is to the average speaker of English.

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Joshua Project 2000 - Hindi, Eastern Profile - English
URL: http://www.ad2000.org/peoples/jpl96.htm

Country: India. Language Spoken: Bagheli. Population of People in this Country: 385,000. Population of Language Speakers in the World: 391,500.

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Hindi - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0823753.html

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Hindi, language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. The official language of India, Hindi is the written or literary variant of Hindustani that is used by Hindus.

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