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Modern Standard Hindi is based on the dialect spoken in and around Delhi known as Khari Boli, or “standing speech.” In reality, however, Hindi may be considered an umbrella term for a multitude of spoken and literary registers employed by over 450 million people throughout the north of the Indian subcontinent, from Rajasthan in the west to Bihar in the east, and from the border with Nepal in the north to the border of Maharashtra in the middle of the country. It is quite difficult to pin down the tremendous number and variety of registers that exist in the northern states, even as Modern Standard Hindi is officially privilegedas their standardized form. It is also true that the ways in which people speak are changing rapidly. For this reason, it is better to think of language as operating on a continuum across the length and breadth of north India, particularly when it comes to spoken forms, as well as the registers that are used in the burgeoning media.  \nThe modern name of the language comes originally from Persian, and is related to “Sindhu,” a Sanskrit term for river and particularly the Indus River that flows through the state of Punjab in Pakistan. Both the words Hindi and Hindu were used by Persian speakers to describe the people and the languages on the east of the Indus River in the second millennium of the Common Era. Other words that were also in currency included Hindavi and Hindui. While Hindi has been associated with a tremendous number of spoken registers that have existed in a state of constant flux in north India for at least a millennium, the evolution of the language has been traditionally understood in terms of literature (both devotional and courtly) produced over the second millennium across this region. In histories of Hindi literature produced from the 19th century onwards, historians frequently underlined the importance of an impressive number of compositions by poets patronized in royal courts and in the form of devotional texts produced by Hindu saints,  \noften in regional registers, as critical to the development of the modern language. At the same time, a modern literary style, predominantly written in the Devanagari script, came to be privileged as a medium of education and for some administrative tasks at lower levels of the bureaucracy during the colonial period. Gradually this form came to be standardized and to gain further official recognition, in addition to being used in the emerging print media as well.  \nOver the 19th and 20th centuries however, descriptions of Hindi came to be infused with a particular language politics, especially in regard to its relationship to Urdu and English. At the level of everyday speech, Hindi and Urdu are conventionally understood to be more or less mutually intelligible. At the literary level, however, Urdu ordinarily draws much more of its vocabulary from Persian and Arabic, and is conventionally written in a modified form of the Arabic script. English has occupied a contentious place in India since the colonial period, when it represented the language of colonial power and, overtime, the language of the colonized elite classes.  \nGiven the vast number of different registers, and the pace at which languages are changing in contemporary South Asia, Hindi learning materials understandably focus more on written forms of language, such as those found in the media and in literary texts. Over the years Hindi writers have conventionally drawn most heavily from Sanskrit, the classical language of Indian antiquity, for their vocabulary needs. 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