The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi speaking states, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern...

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language...

g. India's Hindi Belt). Banana belt, a term applied to several U.S. areas with milder climates than their surrounding regions Bible Belt, any collection...

forms the lingua franca in a large region in Pakistan and North India (Hindi Belt) and the trade language in Andaman and Arunachal Pradesh. A version of...

called Hindi languages In the widest sense, the languages of the Hindi Belt, including varieties of Bihari, Rajasthani, and Pahari Bombay Hindi, spoken...

dialect continuum that descends from the Middle Prakrits. Located in the Hindi Belt, the Central Zone includes the Dehlavi (Delhi) dialect (one of several...

very similar to Standard Hindi, but there are some important distinctions. As in the Bhojpuri and Awadhi dialects of the Hindi Belt spoken in rural India...

Hindi media refers to media in the Hindi language and its dialects, across the Hindi belt in India, and elsewhere within the Hindi-speaking Indian diaspora...

Pradesh. The region is part of the Hindi Belt, and Modern Standard Hindi is the predominant language. Other Hindi belt languages such as Chhattisgarhi are...

The caste system among South Asian Christians often reflects stratification by sect, location, and the caste of their predecessors. There exists evidence...