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  2. Proto-language - Wikipedia

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    Typically, the proto-language is not known directly. It is by definition a linguistic reconstruction formulated by applying the comparative method to a group of languages featuring similar characteristics. [3] The tree is a statement of similarity and a hypothesis that the similarity results from descent from a common language.

  3. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani profanities may have origins in Persian, Arabic, Turkish or Sanskrit. [3] Hindustani profanity is used such as promoting racism, sexism or offending someone. Hindustani slurs are extensively used in social medias in Hinglish and Urdish, although use of Devanagari and Nastaliq scripts for throwing slurs is on rise. [4]

  4. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati in 4 parts – A commentary on the Lakshya Sangeetam in Marathi. It is a detailed study and discussion of the theory of music and explanation of 150 Ragas of Hindustani music. This important work has been translated into Hindi. Kramik Pustak Malika – This book was published in six parts.

  5. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The language continued to be called "Hindi", "Hindustani", as well as "Urdu". [2] [16] While Urdu retained the grammar and core Sanskritic and Prakritic vocabulary of Khariboli, it adopted the Nastaleeq writing system. [2] [17] [18] [19] Urdu, like Hindi, is a form of the same language, Hindustani. [20]

  6. Music - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. [5] While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. [6] Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. [7]

  7. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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  8. Fiji Hindi - Wikipedia

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    He analysed Fiji Hindi and concluded that it was a unique language with its own distinct grammar, rather than "broken Hindi", as it had been previously referred to. Moag documented his findings and wrote lessons using the Fijian Hindi dialect in the book, Fiji Hindi: a basic course and reference grammar (1977).

  9. Bhojpuri language - Wikipedia

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    A speaker of Bhojpuri. Bhojpuri (IPA: / ˌ b oʊ dʒ ˈ p ʊər i /; [7] Devanagari: भोजपुरी ⓘ, Kaithi: 𑂦𑂷𑂔𑂣𑂳𑂩𑂲) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India and the Terai region of Nepal and [8] it is chiefly spoken in eastern Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and northwestern Jharkhand in India, as well as western Madhesh ...