Hindi Language

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Hindi Language Heritage Communities

• Vijay Gambhir
• University of Pennsylvania

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HERITAGE HINDI COMMUNITIESMLA DATA (5 years )

• http//www.mla.org/cgi-shl/docstudio/docs.pl?map_d
  ata_results
• Total of Speakers 465,415

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• HINDI 2005 Total of Speakers 465,415
• California 103,285 22.19
• New York 49,786 10.69
• New Jersey 45,398 9.75
• Texas 32,074 6.89
• Illinois 30,804 6.61
• Georgia 19,524 4.19
• Virginia 17,643 3.79
• Michigan 16,745 3.59
• Maryland 16,042 3.44
• Florida 15,479 3.32
• Pennsylvania 13,459 2.89
• Massachusetts 13,289 2.85
• Washington 9,751 2.09

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Ohio 9,229 1.98Arizona 6,706 1.44
North Carolina 6,640 1.42 Connecticut
6,427 1.38 Wisconsin 5,787 1.24
Minnesota 5,587 1.20 Tennessee 5,122
1.10 Oregon 4,408 0.94 Nevada 3,107
0.66 Indiana 3,104 0.66 Kansas 2,548
0.54 Alabama 2,315 0.49 Missouri
2,298 0.49 Colorado 2,295 0.49 Utah
1,920 0.41 South Carolina 1,907 0.40
Oklahoma 1,488 0.31 Nebraska 1,345
0.28Louisiana 1,107 0.23 New Hampshire
950 0.20
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Iowa 920 0.19 Arkansas 853 0.18
North Dakota 821 0.17 Mississippi 790
0.16 Delaware 740 0.15 Rhode Island
667 0.14 West Virginia 611 0.13
District of Columbia 589 0.12 New Mexico
481 0.10 Idaho 453 0.09 Montana
369 0.07 Hawai'i 284 0.06 Kentucky
141 0.03 Vermont 127 0.02
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Ability to speak Englishby age groups
http//www.mla.org/map_data_resultsSRVY_YEAR2005
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MLA 2005 Urdu Speakers

• Total 262,671

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SOME FACTS ABOUT HINDI

• Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European Language
• Official language of Indian Union
• Lingua Franca
• Language of Bollywood (Hindi cinema)
• Language with a long literary tradition
• Language of popular politics
• Language of heritage identity
• Global communities (Nepal, Middle East, Fiji,
  Suriname, Canada, Britain, USA, etc.)
• Devanagari script (???? ??????)

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Linguistic Properties of Hindi

• Diglossia (gap between formal informal styles)
• Code-mixing (Hinglish)
• Code-switching

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Varieties of Hindi

• Standard Hindi
• Regional varieties
• Braj
• Awadhi
• Bhojpuri
• Rajasthani
• Etc.

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Hindi Urdu RelationshipAre they different
languages?

• Linguistic perspective
• Grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax)
• Vocabulary
• Script
• Literary Perspective
• Historical Perspective
• Cultural perspective
• Political perspective
• Religious perspective

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Role of English in India

• Associate official language
• Language of power prestige
• Language of higher education
• Language of computers Internet

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Pedagogic Issues

• How much Hinglish should be used in second
  language classrooms?
• 2. Should we teach Hindi Urdu as two separate
  languages or one language?
• Hindi Urdu
• Hindi-Urdu
• Hindi Urdu