(n.) The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speaking in Hindi (her granddaughters translate for her with doctors), Chauhan says she did not tell her friends about the cancer.
(2) This region, on the margin of the vast northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is the Hindi heartland.
(3) In Study 2, Hindi-English bilinguals were tested in both their languages.
(4) To clarify these conflicting claims, EMG recordings were obtained from the palatoglossus (as well as the levator palatini) muscle of a native speaker of Hindi who produced CVC nonsense and meaningful syllables containing a nasal or nonnasal vowel in a symmetric consonantal environment.
(5) Radio broadcasts in China, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will be axed, and shortwave broadcasts will cease in Hindi.
(6) URL: Kenyan police again disputed this explanation, with the deputy inspector general, Grace Kaindi, claiming that writing on a blackboard found at a junction near Hindi with could implicate the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC) , a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
(7) But Obama, who visited India in November 2010, charmed his hosts with flattering references to their country's heritage and booming economy, a stab at speaking Hindi in parliament and a promise of support for a permanent seat on the United Nations security council, a long-cherished ambition that is extremely unlikely to be fulfilled any time soon.
(8) Since its launch in 1997 around 15 million people have signed up to Shaadi.com ( "shaadi" is Hindi for marriage) with five million using it at any given time.
(9) Why?” Jyoti, initially given the name Nirbhaya, meaning fearless in Hindi, to preserve her anonymity, died after 13 days.
(10) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(11) It mistakenly referred to the Hindi festival of Navatri.
(12) Photograph: Lechal The Lechal shoes - which means “take me along” in Hindi - were originally developed to help navigation for the visually impaired, but applications for fitness and the sighted were quickly realised.
(13) Employing a Hindi adaptation of the Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (MHQ), neuroticism level was assessed in 133 subjects with irritable bowel syndrome and compared with that in patients with organic bowel disease (33), healthy population (140) and known neurotics (110).
(14) He stressed the importance of the World Service and described the corporation's Arabic, Somali and Hindi networks as lying "at the core of what the BBC is doing".
(15) The third Briton– and final speaker – in the video, identified as Abu Dujana al-Hindi, describes his monologue as a "message to the brothers who stayed behind".
(16) And you certainly don't spot his qualities in most contemporary Hindi films.
(17) An AFP reporter in Hindi said all of the dead in the town were men, apart from a teenage boy reportedly shot as he tried to run away.
(18) But Puranik, who arranged the pregnancy, set a fixed rate, and the clients spoke neither Hindi nor Marathi, the languages Kalpita knows.
(19) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .
(20) In India, it’s called the “jugaad”, a Hindi word that roughly translates as “innovative fix” or “improvised solution”.
Urdu
Definition:
(n.) The language more generally called Hindustanee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
(2) The term comes from the Urdu ( parda ) and Persian ( pardah ) word meaning veil or curtain and is also used to describe the practice of screening women from men or strangers.
(3) Yet few of them are encouraged to learn Bengali, Urdu or Polish in the playground, and I'm not aware that any school has tried to foster or formalise peer group learning of that kind.
(4) The most popular other modern languages are: Italian (5,136 entries); Urdu (4,519 entries); Polish (3,933 entries); Arabic (3,607 entries) and Chinese (3,042 entries).
(5) They didn't want me to be killed for" – and here she laughs – "writing a diary for BBC Urdu .
(6) Over the last year operations against MQM supporters and Urdu speakers have intensified,” Jalil said.
(7) Data for 80.7% of 473 Urdu children, 86.6% of 551 Gujarati children, and 84.4% of 1265 Punjabi children were available for the analysis.
(8) Most of the output is in English, but there are programmes in Hindi-Urdu, Mirpuri, Gujarati, Bengali and Punjabi.
(9) The former president spoke for an hour in Urdu and an hour in English, laying out pledges to restore the country to unity, prosperity and growth, but he made clear it was his leadership above all that was on offer.
(10) Mahmood’s career began as a schoolboy in Birmingham, helping his parents, both journalists, produce Urdu-language papers for the local Asian community.
(11) One of her colleagues, MP for Bassetlaw John Mann, had already written that Labour failed in Bradford West because they had "no Muslim doorknockers, no Urdu speaker, no hijab-wearing woman talking to Muslim women voters ".
(12) As part of a nutritional surveillance system of primary school children the relation between growth and vegetarianism in the Urdu, Gujarati, and Punjabi groups was explored.
(13) 1970s: Begins his career helping his parents produce Urdu-language paper.
(14) The results of the study indicate that there was consistency in the assignment of pure-tone frequencies to the dimensions of the figures and that the pattern of assignment was generally similar for both English- and Urdu-speaking subjects alike.
(15) The most popular in terms of entries were: Italian (5,136); Urdu (4,519); Polish (3,933); Arabic (3,607) and Chinese (3,042).
(16) Mahmood was the son of a journalist who pioneered the first Urdu-language newspaper in Britain and reporting came naturally.
(17) Leprosy rate amongst Tamil and Urdu speaking students was significanlty more than amongst Marathi and other language groups.
(18) As a schoolboy, Moudud wet his shirt with the blood of a young man killed demonstrating against the imposition of "Urdu and only Urdu" as the official language of Bangla-speaking East Pakistan .
(19) Three samples with preferred languages of English, Gujarati or Urdu were compared on a standardized interview with regard to symptom complaint, perception and attribution and also completed the General Health Questionnaire and Illness Behaviour Questionnaire.
(20) For example, Urdu subjects of the English proficiency produced frequency assignments that closely resembled those of the English-speaking subjects, while subjects of low English proficiency produced a pattern that was somewhat different, particularly with regard to round, complex figures.