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  2. Salutation - Wikipedia

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    Salutation. A salutation is a greeting used in a letter or other communication. Salutations can be formal or informal. The most common form of salutation in an English letter includes the recipient's given name or title. For each style of salutation there is an accompanying style of complimentary close, known as valediction.

  3. Honorifics (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In linguistics, an honorific ( abbreviated HON) is a grammatical or morphosyntactic form that encodes the relative social status of the participants of the conversation. Distinct from honorific titles, linguistic honorifics convey formality FORM, social distance, politeness POL, humility HBL, deference, or respect through the choice of ...

  4. Indian honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Indian honorifics. A Maratha Durbar showing the Chief ( Raja) and the nobles ( Sardars, Jagirdars, Sarpatil, Istamuradars & Mankaris) of the state. Indian honorifics are honorific titles or appendices to names used in the Indian subcontinent, covering formal and informal social, commercial, and religious relationships.

  5. Hindi - Wikipedia

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    Terminology The term Hindī originally was used to refer to inhabitants of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It was borrowed from Classical Persian هندی Hindī, meaning "of or belonging to Hind (India)" (hence, "Indian"). Another name Hindavī (हिन्दवी) or Hinduī (हिन्दुई) (from Persian: هندوی "of or belonging to the Hindu/Indian people") was often used in the past ...

  6. Letter (message) - Wikipedia

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    A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. [1] Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original form by large numbers of people, such as newspapers and placards, although even these may ...

  7. International email - Wikipedia

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    International email, by contrast, uses Unicode characters encoded as UTF-8 —allowing for the encoding the text of addresses in most of the world's writing systems. [4] The following are all valid international email addresses : 用户@例子.广告 ( Chinese, Unicode ) ಬೆಂಬಲ@ಡೇಟಾಮೇಲ್.ಭಾರತ ( Kannada, Unicode)

  8. Department of Official Language - Wikipedia

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    A Parliament Committee on Official Language constituted in 1976 periodically reviews the progress in the use of Hindi and submits a report to the President. The governmental body which makes policy decisions and established guidelines for the promotion of Hindi is the Kendriya Hindi Samiti (est. 1967). In every city that has more than ten ...

  9. Swami - Wikipedia

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    Swami ( Sanskrit: स्वामी svāmī [sʋaːmiː]; sometimes abbreviated sw.) in Hinduism is an honorific title given to a male or female ascetic who has chosen the path of renunciation ( sanyāsa ), [1] or has been initiated into a religious monastic order of Vaishnavas. [2] It is used either before or after the subject's name (usually ...