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HINDI, WESTERN

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 478 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HINDI, WESTERN , the Indo-See also:Aryan See also:language of the See also:middle and upper Gangetic See also:Doab, and of the See also:country to the See also:north and See also:south. It is the See also:vernacular of over 40,000,000 See also:people. Its See also:standard See also:dialect' is Braj Bhasha, spoken near See also:Muttra, which has a considerable literature mainly devoted to the See also:religion founded on devotion to See also:Krishna. Another dialect spoken near See also:Delhi and in the upper Gangetic Doab is the See also:original from which See also:Hindostani, the See also:great lingua franca of See also:India, has See also:developed (see HINDOSTANI). Western Hindi, like Punjabi, its See also:neighbour to the See also:west, is descended from the Apabhramsa See also:form of Sauraseni See also:Prakrit (see PRAKRIT), and represents the language of the Madhyadesa or Midland, as distinct from the intermediate and See also:outer Indo-Aryan See also:languages.

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