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  2. 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.

  3. Linguistic discrimination - Wikipedia

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    while "problemo" is not a word in Spanish. This is considered an inappropriate joke that shows linguistic racism to Spanish. Many Spanish speaker reflect that mock Spanish is offensive. Jane Hill believes that this intentional jocular and disrecpectful accent and modification represents "elevation of whiteness" and direct racism. Since white ...

  4. Hate speech laws in India - Wikipedia

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    In April 2015, the Supreme Court of India quashed the ban and observed that the ban has outlived its utility. The drama has been staged abroad, including the Vatican, and is available online. [26] In 2005, the Supreme court set aside a decision of West Bengal government to forfeit all copies of the book "Dwikhandita" written by Taslima Narseen.

  5. Mock language - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of the "add 'o'" phenomenon. The "add 'o'" phenomenon is the practice of English speakers adding an "o" to the end of an English word in order to give it the false appeal of being a Spanish word. Speakers may use "el" or add an "o" at the end of words as if they are speaking mock Spanish (such as el cheapo, no problemo).

  6. Linguistic racism - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic racism also relates to the concept of "racializing discourses," which is defined as the ways race is discussed without being explicit but still manages to represent and reproduce race. [2] This form of racism acts to classify people, places, and cultures into social categories while simultaneously maintaining this social inequality ...

  7. Hindustani phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Urdu, there is further short [a] (spelled ہ, as in کمرہ kamra) in word-final position, which contrasts with [aː] (spelled ا, as in لڑکا laṛkā). This contrast is often not realized by Urdu speakers, and always neutralized in Hindi (where both sounds uniformly correspond to [aː]). [5] [6]

  8. Hindustani orthography - Wikipedia

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    As a result of schwa syncope, the correct Hindi pronunciation of many words differs from that expected from a literal rendering of Devanagari. For instance, राम is Rām (incorrect: Rāma ), रचना is Rachnā (incorrect: Rachanā ), वेद is Véd (incorrect: Véda ) and नमकीन is Namkeen (incorrect Namakeena ).

  9. Paki (slur) - Wikipedia

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    The word was also used in Rita, Sue and Bob Too – set in Bradford, one of the first cities to have a large Pakistani community. [ citation needed ] In the 2018 biopic Bohemian Rhapsody , Freddie Mercury , who was Indian Parsi , was often addressed derogatorily as a "Paki" when he worked as a baggage handler at London Heathrow Airport in 1970.