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The use of ji is also used by Urdu speakers who associate with Indian culture and language. Variant spellings. jee – Anglicised spelling, common in old publications. jii – example: Ánandamúrtijii, founder of Ánanda Márga. jiew – example: Shankari Mai Jiew in Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. joo – example: Lakshman Joo of Kashmir.
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit -derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2] However, in formal speech, Hindi tends to draw on ...
Braj [a] is a language within the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Braj region centered on Mathura. Along with Awadhi, it was one of the two predominant literary languages of North-Central India before being replaced by Hindi in the 19th century. The language was historically used for Vaishnavite poetry dedicated to Krishna, whose life ...
Hinglish is the macaronic hybrid use of South Asian English and the Hindustani language. Its name is a portmanteau of the words Hindi and English. In the context of spoken language, it involves code-switching or translanguaging between these languages whereby they are freely interchanged within a sentence or between sentences.
The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is a subset of the ISO 15919 standard, used for the transliteration of Sanskrit, Prakrit and Pāḷi into Roman script with diacritics. IAST is a widely used standard. It uses diacritics to disambiguate phonetically similar but not identical Sanskrit glyphs.
Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and through its two standardized registers, Hindi and Urdu, a co-official language of India and co-official and national language of Pakistan respectively. Phonological differences between the two standards are minimal.
Modern Standard Hindi, (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī) commonly referred to as Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family. It is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script , the official language of India alongside English , and the ...
Oi / ɔɪ / is an interjection used in various varieties of the English language, particularly Australian English, British English, Indian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, and South African English, as well as non-English languages such as Chinese, Tagalog, Tamil, Hindi/Urdu, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese to get the attention of another person or to express surprise or disapproval.