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Did British officers in India speak Hindi?
British officials in India in the 17th and 18th Centuries routinely had to learn languages such as Urdu, Hindi and Persian.
Can British people speak Hindi?
Hindi though had pretty much evolved from Khadi Boli of Uttar Pradesh itself. Yes.
Who created Hindi language in India?
Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi is a direct descendant of an early form of Vedic Sanskrit, through Sauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from Sanskrit apabhraṃśa “corrupt”), which emerged in the 7th century CE.
What language did the Indians in India speak before British rule?
Before british, the subcontinent was under Mughals. The court language of the subcontinent was Persian during the Mughal rule. Persian served as the sole official language of the Mughal empire. which was replaced by Urdu in 1839 by British. Originally Answered: What language did the Indians in India speak during their British rule?
Was there a contact language in India before English?
The fact is that there was indeed a widely used contact language in India that the British subsequently adopted for the purpose of printing and the teaching of their own officials. They referred to this language by various names. In the 18th century, they most frequently called it “Moors” while in the 17th, “Indostan”.
Can Hindi ever be India’s national language?
Those who resent the political role of Hindi in 20th century nationalism claim, as the title of an article by a Bengali author does, that “ Hindi was devised by a Scottish linguist of the East India Company – it can never be India’s National Language ”.
Did the British create Hindi?
Hindustani characters of the Grammatica Linguæ Indianæ Vulgaris (1703) of Francois-Marie de Tours. As a person who studies early modern vernaculars, I often hear the opinion that Hindi was created a little more than 200 years ago by the British. This view is nowadays shared by both Hindi and non-Hindi speakers.