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Learn Hindi Through English
Autor: Ajay Kumar Bhalla
Wydawca: Goodwill Publishing House
Ilość stron: 273
Preface: Hindi is the most widely spoken language of the Indian subcontinent, centred principally in the States of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, in the north-central part of India. Hindi is the third principal international language, next only to Mandarin (Chinese) and English, according to the Guinness Records. This spoken as the first language by 225 million people throughout India, nearly 250,000 in Fiji and by many more as an immigrant language in Great Britain, South Africa, Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, in Trinidad, Guyana and Sun name It is the Lingua Franca or the national language of free India.
Like most of the languages of northern India, Hindi has descended from Sanskrit. While the early literary Hindi was based on the Khari Boli ("Straight Speech") dialect, Braj Bhasa, Avadhi, Bagheli, Chattisgami, Bundeli and Kanauji, pure Hindi in the modem speech derives most of its vocabulary from Sanskrit. The original variety was known as the Hindustani, spoken in New Delhi and its neghbourhood area.
Hindi has a much simpler inflectional system than does Sanskrit, although the literary language uses a great number of Sanskrit forms. Nouns and pronouns have lost the full declension in eight cases of Sanskrit and instead make use of post-positions-small words attached to the end of nouns and functioning much like English prepositions.
There are only two genders, masculine and feminine, where as Gujarati and Marathi retain three. Verbs also are much reduced in inflectional complexity with only the present and future indicative forms fully conjugated other constructions are based on participal forms.
This self-tutor of Hindi is the first attempt in a popular way to make Hindi accessable to the foreign tourist. It is a step-by-step comprehensive guide to gain command of the spoken language of Hindi. It is the result of extensive travel and research. It should serve as a useful teach-yourself-guide to India's lingua franca for anyone who has an earnest desire to learn.
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