George A. Grierson. Standard Rajasthani or Standard Marwari, a version of Rajasthani, the common lingua franca of Rajasthani people and is spoken by over...

(Brajbhasha, Bangru, Awadhi, Old Hindi, Deccani), Bhojpuri, Sindhi, Marathi, Marwari, Bengali, Persian, and Arabic. While vocabulary from all of these languages...

8 M: Khortha 5.1 M: Nagpuri 0.5 M: Kurmali Rajasthani languages 7.8 M Marwari-Merwari 5.2 M Malvi 2.3 M Nimadi 4.8M Lambadi 2.9 M Harauti 3 M Godwari...

the Indo-European language family. Urdu is the national language and the lingua franca of Pakistan, and while sharing official status with English, it is...

language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English...

dialect (one of several called 'Khariboli') of the Hindustani language, the lingua franca of Northern India that is the basis of the Modern Standard Hindi...

script. It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India. Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of the...

Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It serves as a lingua franca of the wider region and has over 15 million native speakers according...

primarily spoken in Chitral and surrounding areas in Pakistan. Khowar is the lingua franca of Chitral, and it is also spoken in the Gupis-Yasin and Ghizer districts...

development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under the Delhi and Bahmani Sultanates, as trade and migration from...