Hindustani

Examples

• All

• -You speak Hindustani?

  The Party (1968)

• They both spoke English, but they might get along better, he considered, if she spoke Greek and he spoke Hindustani.

  Fiction book (1996)

• And she's speaking in Hindustani.

  Victoria & Abdul (2017)

• Among them, second-generation immigrants sing songs in Hindustani.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Speak Hindustani?

  The Party (1968)

• I'll try to crack a joke—to, you know, represent—and people look at me as if I've started speaking Hindustani.

  Academic text (2012)

• Many people in Northern India communicate fluently in Hindustani during everyday conversations.

• The movie was dubbed in Hindustani to reach a wider audience in South Asia.

• In the linguistics class, we learned that Hindustani serves as the foundation for both Hindi and Urdu.

Synonyms

H

Hindustani language

vsHindustani

6.3

A language spoken around Delhi that is the base of modern Hindi and Urdu

is the commonly spoken northern form that underlies standard Hindi and Urdu

H

Hindostani language

vsHindustani

• UK

9.2

A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi and northern India that came before modern Hindi and Urdu

is the active northern speech serving as the later standard source

H

Hindoostani language

vsHindustani

• UK

9.9

An old form of Hindi spoken around Delhi that led to modern Hindi and Urdu

is the living northern speech that became the foundation for modern standards

H

Hindostani

vsHindustani

• UK

9.9

An older form of Hindi people spoke around Delhi to talk across northern India

is the core spoken variety in the north serving as a standard source

H

Hindoostani

vsHindustani

• Archaic

9.9

A form of Hindi spoken around Delhi and used as a common language in northern India

is the actual spoken northern form rather than just a historical label

Compounds

H

Hindustani language

6.3

A language spoken around Delhi that is the base of modern Hindi and Urdu

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology