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  2. Hinglish - Wikipedia

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    [7] [11] When Hindi–Urdu is viewed as a single spoken language called Hindustani, the portmanteaus Hinglish and Urdish mean the same code-mixed tongue, though the latter term is used in India and Pakistan to precisely refer to a mixture of English with the Urdu sociolect. [12]

  3. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    Native Hindi speakers pronounce व as [v] in vrat (व्रत – ورت, 'vow') and [w] in pakwān (पकवान – پکوان 'food dish'), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophonic distinctions, though these are apparent to native English speakers.

  4. Latin conditional clauses - Wikipedia

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    'although Datames was a long way away from that region, yet he thought it best to humour the king's wish' Another frequent combination, slightly more emphatic, is etiam sī (or etiamsī) 'even if', 'even though': nec minus līber sum quam vōs, etiam sī pauperem pater mē relīquit (Petronius) [14]

  5. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    For literary domains, a mere transliteration between Hindi-Urdu will not suffice as formal Hindi is more inclined towards Sanskrit vocabulary whereas formal Urdu is more inclined towards Persian and Arabic vocabulary; hence a system combining transliteration and translation would be necessary for such cases. [9]

  6. Irrealis mood - Wikipedia

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    Älköön NEG. IMP. 3SG ketään anyone. PART pidätettäkö arrest. IMP mielivaltaisesti arbitrarily Älköön ketään pidätettäkö mielivaltaisesti NEG.IMP.3SG anyone.PART arrest.IMP arbitrarily " No one shall be arrested arbitrarily" (lit. " Not anyone shall be arrested arbitrarily") Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) (help); where älköön pidätettäkö "shall not be arrested" is the ...

  7. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    In these cities, the language continued to be called "Hindi" as well as "Urdu". [27] [21] While Urdu retained the grammar and core vocabulary of the local Hindi dialect, it adopted the Nastaleeq writing system from Persian. [21] [28] The term Hindustani is derived from Hindustan, the Persian-origin name for the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

  8. Implicature - Wikipedia

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    She stopped the machine. +> She stopped the machine in the usual way. (R-implicature: a stronger, more specific claim is implicated) She got the machine to stop. +> She did not stop the machine in the usual way. (Q-implicature: the stronger claim is negated, as with scalar implicatures)

  9. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), [9] commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India.