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  2. Minority language - Wikipedia

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    A minority language is a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory. Such people are termed linguistic minorities or language minorities. With a total number of 196 sovereign states recognized internationally (as of 2019) [1] and an estimated number of roughly 5,000 to 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, [2] the vast majority of languages are minority languages in every ...

  3. Minority group - Wikipedia

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    The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.According to its common usage, the term minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number of individuals, or less than half, is a "minority".

  4. Accent (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...

  5. Minoritized language - Wikipedia

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    In sociolinguistics, a minoritized language is a language that is marginalized, persecuted, or banned. [1] [2] Language minoritization stems from the tendency of large nations to establish a common language for commerce and government, or to establish homogeneity for ideological reasons.

  6. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    The meaning conveyed is the doer went somewhere to do something and came back after completing the action. This can also mean "to know how to" in the indefinite/habitual present tense – to know how to do: karnā ānā 1. karnā: 1. kar ānā "to finish (and come back)", "to do (and return)"; cuknā "to have (already) completed something"

  7. Mahar - Wikipedia

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    As Buddhists, they gave up their traditional Hindu occupations and sought to redefine their social status. [citation needed] Ambedkar died about two months after this mass conversion, [52] and after his cremation more Mahars converted to Buddhism. [53] Now, the Buddhist (Mahar) community is the third most populous in Mumbai. [12]

  8. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    [74] [75] [76] Similarly, Hindi is accorded the status of official language in the following Union Territories: Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. Although there is no specification of a national language in the constitution, it is a widely held belief that Hindi is the national language of India.

  9. Regional language - Wikipedia

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    A regional language is a language spoken in a region of a sovereign state, whether it be a small area, a federated state or province or some wider area.. Internationally, for the purposes of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, "regional or minority languages" means languages that are: