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  2. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    Romanised Hindi is also used by some newspapers such as The Times of India. [38] [39] The first novel written in this format, All We Need Is Love, was published in 2015. [40] Romanised Hindi has been supported by advertisers in part because it allows a message to be conveyed in a neutral script to both Hindi and Urdu speakers. [41]

  3. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Hindustani language employs a large number of profanities across the Hindi-speaking diaspora. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable into other languages, and make little sense even when they can be translated. Many English translations may not offer the full meaning of the profanity used in the ...

  4. Devanagari transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: Mahābhārat, Rāmāyaṇ, Śiv, Sāmved; Some words may keep the final a, generally because they would be difficult to say without it: Krishna, Vajra, Maurya; Because of this, some words ending in consonant clusters are altered in various modern Indic languages as such: Mantra=mantar. Shabda=shabad. Sushumna=sushumana.

  5. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Hindi–Urdu transliteration (or Hindustani transliteration) is essential for Hindustani speakers to understand each other's text, and it is especially important considering that the underlying language of both the Hindi & Urdu registers are almost the same. [4]

  6. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    So the word became a metaphor for something immense and unstoppable because of institutional or physical inertia; or impending catastrophe that is foreseeable yet virtually unavoidable because of such inertia. Jungle from the Sanskrit word जङ्गल jaṅgala, and later jangal in Hindi as जंगल and Urdu as جنگل. Jaṅgala means ...

  7. Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Hindi and Urdu in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing consensus on the talk page first.

  8. Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Sanskrit word "Rāma" (IPA:, राम) is pronounced "Rām" (IPA:, राम्) in Hindi. The schwa sound at the end of the word is deleted in Hindi. [4] However, in both cases, the word is written राम. The schwa is not deleted in ancient languages such as Sanskrit.

  9. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, the lingua franca of Northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.