Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hindi and Urdu, viewed as essentially the same language with respect to their grammar and core vocabulary, though widely divergent in their literary forms.
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- proper noun The name of the
language which constitutes theHindi andUrdu registers .
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Examples
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But then, instead of calling the etymon "Hindi-Urdu cakor" or "Hindustani cakor," they invented a completely spurious distinction between what look to the untutored eye like two different preforms, apparently because their transcription system for Hindi uses c for the unaspirated \ch\ (presumably using ch for the aspirated consonant), whereas the one for Urdu uses ch for the same phoneme (and presumably chh for the aspirated one).
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
BBC - Ouch 2010
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That's the point where English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic will have the same number of native speakers, according to predictions.
Funny Emails 2010
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That's the point where English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic will have the same number of native speakers, according to predictions.
Funny Emails Pradeep 2010
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The recorded conversation in Hindi-Urdu suggests that the security force personnel suspected the young men of being involved in throwing stones at the security forces, and that they had been caught after a long chase.
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
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