Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and its two standardised registers, Hindi and Urdu, are official languages of India and Pakistan respectively. Grammatical differences between the two standards are minimal but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Persian script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.On this grammar page Hindustani is written in \"standard orientalist\" transcription as outlined in Masica (1991:xv). Being \"primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, [and] based in turn upon Sanskrit\" (cf. IAST), these are its salient features: subscript dots for retroflex consonants; macrons for etymologically, contrastively long vowels; h denoting aspirated plosives. Tildes denote nasalized vowels."@en }
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- Hindustani_grammar abstract "Hindustani is the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, and its two standardised registers, Hindi and Urdu, are official languages of India and Pakistan respectively. Grammatical differences between the two standards are minimal but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Persian script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.On this grammar page Hindustani is written in \"standard orientalist\" transcription as outlined in Masica (1991:xv). Being \"primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, [and] based in turn upon Sanskrit\" (cf. IAST), these are its salient features: subscript dots for retroflex consonants; macrons for etymologically, contrastively long vowels; h denoting aspirated plosives. Tildes denote nasalized vowels.".