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Need Hindi

Need Hindi spelling at Esraj. Badagnani (talk) 21:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Spelling of "Hindi"

The devanagari script for "hindi" is incorrect. It's too hard for me to describe the error using only the English alphabet. See the BBC languages page (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/languages/) for an example of one way to write it correctly (there's at least one other way to write it).

हिन्दी is correct. हिंदी is the alternate. Both are given. Badagnani (talk) 03:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

My mistake. It was a problem with my system not rendering the devanagari script correctly. I fixed the problem and now can see that it is written correctly (two variations). Sorry for the trouble, you responded so quickly (before I could delete my comment!). Thanks.

Tenti dela

Need to determine what species the Indian vegetable tenti dela (used in Indian pickles) is. Badagnani (talk) 22:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Hindi/Standard Hindi/Khariboli/Urdu etc

Request editors of this article to comment on this message:Talk:Hindustani language#Hindi/Standard Hindi/Khariboli/Urdu etc --Deepak D'Souza (talk • contribs) 18:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hindi-speaking peoples

Does anyone what the people who speak Hindi are known as? I can't find a single source saying they're an ethnic group so I'm guessing they're not. So what are they? The same applies to the Urdu-speakers (unless they're the Muhajir people?) --Maurice45 (talk) 19:00, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Hindi/Urdu is spoken by a fairly wide range of ethnic groups (Rajputs, Mongols, more indigenous peoples, even Anglo-Indians), since it's spoken over such a huge area (compared to any other Indian language, except English if it counts :-D). So I strongly doubt that there is a word for Hindi- or Urdu-speaking people (other than simply "Hindi-speakers" or "Urdu-speakers" or "Hindi- and/or Urdu-speakers"). --Kuaichik (talk) 23:50, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Hindi-speaking people are no ethnic group. Maquahuitl 06:32, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

The term for a person who speaks Hindi would be हिंदी बोलनेवाला I believe. It doesn't translate to anything useful; "Hindi speaker" would be a translation of the idea. Other than that, there is no other description of a Hindi speaker other than they speak Hindi. --LaRoza

Zabān-e-Urdū-e-Mu`allah in Devanagari

In the Hindi and Urdu section of this article, there is a sentence that says "Urdu was earlier called Zabān-e-Urdū-e-Mu`allah (زبانِ اردوِ معلہ, ज़बान-ए उर्दू), lit., the "Exalted Language of the Camp"." There's a problem here in that the Devanagari says ज़बान-ए उर्दू which is "zabān-e urdū", not "zabān-e urdū-e mu'allah" like it should.

YoshiroShin (talk) 23:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

I changed it myself now.

YoshiroShin (talk) 17:51, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Very Basic Definition

The very basic definition for Urdu and Hindi should suffuce here as it was was done when a consensus was reached during the conclusion to of the controversy: Urdu is that language which contains Turkish, Farsi and Arabic loan words with sprinkling of Pashtu words here and there, and Hindi is that which contains Sanskritic loan words, even though both are based on the various dialects spoken around Dehli, Agra and their environs. Furthermore, both these languages are written in different scripts i.e. Hindi in Devanagri and Urdu in modified Farsi. The mutual intelligibility is totally due to the two factors - inter-communality and Indian cinema effect. Bombay film industry always recognised the fact that heavilly Sanskitised dialogues in their films would not bring many filmgoers so they resorted to using Hindustani, a less difficult and more colloqual form of Urdu. This is evidenced from the many Urdu writers, actors and lyricists who contributed to the industry. In fact Bombay films and songs were promoted as Hindustani in language. I still have old 75rpm/45rpm records of Indian film songs clearly labelled as Hindustani. Now let's get off the various bandwagons and agree with the conclusions the various language movements came to and not keep on defining and re-defining the two languages. I cannot understand the Mahabharat and not can many native Hindi speakers but I can comprehend Bollywood films and frequently have to translate many 'difficult' Urdu words to my Hindu/Sikh friends (from India)for them but this does not happen the otherway. Interestingly enough proper Hindi words for many everday usage such as air, congratulations, thank you etc. are rarely used. Instead hawa, Diwali mubarak, Shukriya, are the most commonlly enunciated. Even the most basic terms for common things e.g. zara, cheez etc. are derived from Urdu even though quite often they are mispronounced. There are countless examples - nouns, proper nouns, verbs, adverbs and off course adjectives are all there as evedence of the above arument.

So whatever the origins there is no doubt that Urdu gave the Indian native language it's name as well as its's vocabulary in this day and age. Urdu has remained true to it's origin i.e. a Persianised,Turkised and Arabised version of Kharri Boli, whereas Hindi, originally a Sanskritised Kharri Boli has become, in vernacular usage at least, Urduised i.e. Urdu that is spoken and written in Devanagri. This is attested to by the many rightwing Hindu scholars and organisation who would like to rename Hindi as Bharati and go back to the demand and agreement of the days of Urdu-Hindi controversy and 'purify' India and Indian language. (USER talk:Moarrikh) 19:45, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Need Hindi

Need Devanagari/Hindi script at Tawaif. Badagnani (talk) 06:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

It's probably तवाइफ़ but I didn't find that in any official sources. Also two things. One is these notes are better placed on the language reference desk since they do not relate to the article Hindi and the second is I would disagree that the Devanagari should go in that article since it is a particularly Urdu word. But I suppose an argument for both could be made. I don't know the Arabic or Nastaliq scripts or I would have added that. - Taxman 22:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

It would be (based on the Latin text) : توف

There are no vowel marks in this word (I do not use them and wouldn't know how to type them anyway). (Two lines because of the difficulty in typing with l-r and r-l text in one line) LaRoza

I have added the requested Hindi and Urdu scripts. In Devanagari, the word is spelled तवायफ़ and in Nastaliq, the word is spelled طوائف. I hope this helps. With regards, Anupam 00:42, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

hindi

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hindi

sewak nath parihar alok village....ari postoffice..ari distt,....seoni m p 480771 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.241.152.251 (talk) 13:58, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

hindi

sewak nath parihar alok village....ari postoffice..ari distt,....seoni m p 480771 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.241.152.251 (talk) 14:01, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Need Hindi

Need Hindi for "ajmud"/"ajmod" at Radhuni. Badagnani (talk) 21:46, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Need Hindi for "ajmud"/"ajmod" at Radhuni. Badagnani (talk) 17:17, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Need Hindi

Need Hindi at Charoli. Badagnani (talk) 06:05, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Need Hindi at Charoli. Badagnani (talk) 17:16, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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