Western Hindi

noun

1. the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.

Example Sentences

In 1901 the speakers of these three languages numbered: Panjabi, 17,070,961; Western Hindi, 40,714,925; Eastern Hindi, 22,136,358.

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Panjabi, and the western dialects of Western Hindi, have preserved the old Vedic cerebral l.

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A native veterinary surgeon once said to the present writer, “kuttē-kā saliva bahut antiseptic hai” for “a dog’s saliva is very antiseptic,” and this is not an extravagant example.3 The vocabulary of Panjabi and Eastern Hindi is very similar to that of Western Hindi.

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Hindostani is by origin a dialect of Western Hindi, and it is first of all necessary to explain what we mean by the term “Hindi” as applied to language.

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To the south of Panjabi and Western Hindi lies Rajasthani.

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