Varieties Of Hindi
Hindi, in the broad sense, is a dialect continuum within the Indo-Aryan language family in the northern plains of India, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati and Marathi; on the east by Maithili and Bengali; and on the north by Nepali.
This wide definition is the one used in the official Indian census and results in a clear majority of Indians being speakers of Hindi. As defined in the 1991 census, Hindi covers a number of Central, East-Central, Eastern, and Northern Zone languages, including the Bihari languages excepting Maithili, the Rajasthani languages, and the Pahari languages excepting Dogri and Nepali. Linguistically, it is equally possible to classify these as separate languages rather than dialects.
The Central Zone languages, or Hindi proper, are conventionally divided into Western and Eastern Hindi. An even more narrow definition of "Hindi" is Standard Hindi, a standardized register of one of the Central Zone dialects historically based on the Khariboli dialect of 17th-century Delhi.
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