Delhi Hindi(s)

[Michael Shapiro]

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There is a section entitled "dillii kii hindii" by Manju Gupta included in
V. R. Jagannathan's PRAYOG AUR PRAYOG (Delhi: Oxford University Press,
1981, pp. 420-428).  It contains a good overview of phonological and
morphological features of Delhi Hindi, which are contrasted with those of
standard Hindi.
--Michael Shapiro

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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Gail Coelho wrote:

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> At 03:26 PM 7/16/99 +1200, you wrote:
> >other suitable term. My informant group consisted of 22 people half of whom
> >came from families which did not speak Hindi as their 'native' tongue
> >previously. That is, they were either the first or the second generation to
> >use Hindi as their first language, and did not speak their
> >parents/grandparents mother/native tongue or first language. I would not
> >like to classify them as people who have "lost their mother tongue". The
>
> Hi Kalika,
>
> I wonder why you wouldn't want to treat them as people who've lost their
> mother tongue -- is it because they still have some knowledge of it? They
> do sound to me like cases of language shift and therefore at least partial
> language loss.
>
> Gail Coelho
>