More recently, the word 'Hindustani' has been used for the colloquial language of Bollywood films, which are popular in both India and Pakistan and which cannot be unambiguously identified as either Hindi …

Hindustani language, lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan. Two variants of Hindustani, Urdu and Hindi, are official languages in Pakistan and India, respectively.

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India and Pakistan as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani-speaking community ...

The meaning of HINDUSTANI is a group of Indo-Aryan dialects of northern India of which literary Hindi and Urdu are considered diverse written forms.

Early forms of present-day Hindustani developed from the Middle Indo-Aryan apabhraṃśa vernaculars of present-day North India in the 7th–13th centuries, chiefly the Dehlavi dialect of the Western Hindi …

Hindustani derives from the Old Hindi language of Western Uttar Pradesh and Delhi areas. Its literary standard forms— Modern Standard Hindi and Modern Standard Urdu —use different scripts.

Oct 31, 2025 · Hindustani (plural Hindustanis) A person from India, varying historically from the entire subcontinent to India north of the Deccan, especially the plains of the Ganges and Jumna.

During this period, Hindustani was used by Sufis in promulgating their message across the Indian subcontinent. After the advent of the Mughals in the subcontinent, Hindustani acquired more Persian …

Hindustani which is written in Devanagari script and which uses a vocabulary more derived from Sanskrit is now known as Hindi, and is the most important language of South Asia.

During this time Hindustani was the language of both Hindus and Muslims. The non-communal nature of the language lasted until the British Raj in India, when in 1837 Hindustani in the Persian script (i.e. …