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  2. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...

  3. Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

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    Schwa deletion, or schwa syncope, is a phenomenon that sometimes occurs in Assamese, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Gujarati, and several other Indo-Aryan languages with schwas that are implicit in their written scripts.

  4. Hindustani verbs - Wikipedia

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    The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [20]) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [21] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of the compound". [20] While almost any verb can act as a main verb, there is a limited set of productive light verbs. [22]

  5. Endangered language - Wikipedia

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    An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. [1] Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language". If no one can speak the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language".

  6. Language attrition - Wikipedia

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    Language attrition is the process of decreasing proficiency in or losing a language. For first or native language attrition, this process is generally caused by both isolation from speakers of the first language ("L1") and the acquisition and use of a second language ("L2"), which interferes with the correct production and comprehension of the first.

  7. Hindustani declension - Wikipedia

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    Hindi-Urdu, also known as Hindustani, has three noun cases (nominative, oblique, and vocative) [1] [2] and five pronoun cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and oblique). The oblique case in pronouns has three subdivisions: Regular, Ergative , and Genitive .

  8. List of endangered languages in India - Wikipedia

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    An endangered language is a language that is at a risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language.

  9. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    Any one of the Unicode fonts input systems is fine for the Indic language Wikipedia and other wikiprojects, including Hindi, Bhojpuri, Marathi, and Nepali Wikipedia. While some people use InScript , the majority uses either Google phonetic transliteration or the input facility Universal Language Selector provided on Wikipedia.