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[7] [11] When Hindi–Urdu is viewed as a single spoken language called Hindustani, the portmanteaus Hinglish and Urdish mean the same code-mixed tongue, though the latter term is used in India and Pakistan to precisely refer to a mixture of English with the Urdu sociolect.
In contemporary Persian and Hindi-Urdu, the term Hindustan has recently come to mean the Republic of India. The same is the case with Arabic, where al-Hind is the name for the Republic of India. "Hindustan", as the term Hindu itself, entered the English language in the 17th century. In the 19th century, the term as used in English referred to ...
[97] [13] [24] [12] Hindi is the most commonly used scheduled language in India and is one of the two official languages of the union, [100] the other being English. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is one of 22 scheduled languages of India , also having official status in Uttar Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir , Delhi ...
Namaste ( Sanskrit pronunciation: [nɐmɐste:], [ 1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [ 2][ 3][ 4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [ 5] It is used in the Indian subcontinent, and among the Indian and Nepalese diaspora.
Jai Hind ( Hindi: जय् हिन्द्, IPA: [dʒəj ɦɪnd]) is a salutation and slogan that originally meant "Victory to Hindustan ", [ 1] and in contemporary colloquial usage often means "Long live India" [ 2] or "Salute to India". Coined by Champakaraman Pillai [ 3][ 4] and used during India's independence movement from British rule ...
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
English language. Indian English ( IndE, [ 4] IE) is a group of English dialects spoken in the Republic of India and among the Indian diaspora. [ 5] English is used by the Government of India for communication, and is enshrined in the Constitution of India. [ 6]
Baba (honorific) Baba ("father, grandfather, wise old man, sir") [ 1] is a Persian honorific term, [ 2] used in several West Asian, South Asian and African cultures. It is used as a mark of respect to refer to Hindu ascetics ( sannyasis) and Sikh gurus, as a suffix or prefix to their names, e.g. Sai Baba of Shirdi, Baba Ramdevji, etc. [ 1][ 3]