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Hindavī
Spoken in	India, Pakistan
Total speakers	—
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central zone Hindi languages Hindavī; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	–
ISO 639-3	–
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Hindavi (हिन्दवी, ہندوی), Hindawi, or Hindvi is the mother language of modern standard Urdu and later Hindi.^[1] It was formed as a result of the intermingling of Persian loanwords with the native Khariboli language spoken in Delhi and was written in the Perso-Arabic script.^[2]^[3] For this reason, Amir Khusro referred to this language of his writings as Dahlavi (meaning of Delhi) or Hindavi (meaning of Hindustan). During this period, the language was used by Sufis in promulgating their message across the Indian subcontinent.^[4] After the advent of the Mughals in India, the Hindavi language acquired more Persian loanwords and hence, Rekhta (meaning mixture) and Hindi (also meaning Hindustan)^[5] became popular names for the same language, until the eighteenth century.^[1] Urdu, as a name for the language arose around 1780.^[1] During the British Raj, the term "Hindustani" came into use as a result of British officials identifying the country's former name as Hindustan.^[1] In 1796, John Borthwick Gilchrist published a "A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language".^[6]^[1]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman, "A Long History of Urdu Literarature, Part 1", p. 806, http://books.google.com/books?id=xowUxYhv0QgC&pg=PA806&vq=%22Urdu%22+as+a+name+for+the+language&dq=0520228219&sig=dCsukF44BlAtQomOWT3v3ZZRJpk in Pollock (2003).
^ Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World By Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie page page 498 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC&pg=PA498&lpg=PA498&dq=hindustani+in+perso-arabic+script+india&source=bl&ots=SOmDC7EDZ6&sig=ZKGjqa8kj8H60NgQNcFX_EwcD2w&hl=en&ei=POF-SqfBJqC7jAeK4IjxAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false
^ Language and literacy in social practice By Janet Maybin, Open University, page 102
^ "The Origin and Growth of Urdu Language". Yaser Amri. http://islamicindia.blogspot.com/2005/11/origin-and-growth-of-urdu-language.html. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
^ McGregor, Stuart, "The Progress of Hindi, Part 1", p. 912, http://books.google.com/books?id=xowUxYhv0QgC&pg=RA1-PA912&vq=%22the+progress+of+hindi%22&dq=0520228219&sig=cxoU04ikzkQAgcCaye1dMooeEns in Pollock (2003)
^ "A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language". Chronicle Press. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_rwIAAAAQAAJ&dq=hindoostanee+language&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ZrFhKkqsFL&sig=ZobIvTmQsg6QZZpksoO_FWVmwP0. Retrieved 2007-01-08.

It is referred to as Kabir's language [1]
Persian texts refer to it [2]
Medieval Chishti Sufi [3]
UNESCO refers to it as Zuban-e-Hindawi [4]
TDIL, Govt. of India refers to it here [5]
Referred in a Springer publication [6]

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[faruqi_806-0] Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman, "A Long History of Urdu Literarature, Part 1", p. 806, http://books.google.com/books?id=xowUxYhv0QgC&pg=PA806&vq=%22Urdu%22+as+a+name+for+the+language&dq=0520228219&sig=dCsukF44BlAtQomOWT3v3ZZRJpk in Pollock (2003).

[1] Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World By Keith Brown, Sarah Ogilvie page page 498 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=F2SRqDzB50wC&pg=PA498&lpg=PA498&dq=hindustani+in+perso-arabic+script+india&source=bl&ots=SOmDC7EDZ6&sig=ZKGjqa8kj8H60NgQNcFX_EwcD2w&hl=en&ei=POF-SqfBJqC7jAeK4IjxAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false

[2] Language and literacy in social practice By Janet Maybin, Open University, page 102

[Amri-Hindavi-3] "The Origin and Growth of Urdu Language". Yaser Amri. http://islamicindia.blogspot.com/2005/11/origin-and-growth-of-urdu-language.html. Retrieved 2007-01-08.

[mcgregor_912-4] McGregor, Stuart, "The Progress of Hindi, Part 1", p. 912, http://books.google.com/books?id=xowUxYhv0QgC&pg=RA1-PA912&vq=%22the+progress+of+hindi%22&dq=0520228219&sig=cxoU04ikzkQAgcCaye1dMooeEns in Pollock (2003)

[Gilchrist-5] "A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language". Chronicle Press. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_rwIAAAAQAAJ&dq=hindoostanee+language&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ZrFhKkqsFL&sig=ZobIvTmQsg6QZZpksoO_FWVmwP0. Retrieved 2007-01-08.

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