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Manohar An English-Hindustani Vocabulary by D C Phillott
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, was one of the most popular language during the eighteenth century. It is widely spoken in Northern India, Deccan, and parts of Pakistan. It retained its grammar and core vocabulary of the then-medieval Delhi province dialects with Persian, Arabic, and Turkic words. This language was developed as the result of linguistic diversity during the Muslim hegemony in India. Hindustani was further developed during the British era. Even, the father of the Indian nation, Mahatma Gandhi, also favoured Hindustani as the language of India. But today, it is generally associated with the language spoken by North Indian and Deccani Muslims. This book is a bilingual work, re¬presenting 5184 English words, and 3000 Hindustani colloquial words, and this list contains common words spoken on an everyday basis by the countryside population of Northern India. About the Author D.C. Phillot (1860-1930) was a British army officer, who served in India and as a Consul in Persia. He was a scholar of Persian, Urdu, and Hindustani dialects, and also an enthusiast of falconry. He has published works such as The Adventures of Haji Baba of Ispahan; The Baz-nama-yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry; Annotated English Translation of Urdu roz-marra, or ‘Every-day Urdu’; The Faras-nāma-e Rangīn or The Book of the Horse; Khazina-e Muhawarat or Urdu Idioms; Hindustani Manual , etc.