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===Bazaar Hindustani=== The term ''[[bazaar]] Hindustani'', in other words, the 'street talk' or literally 'marketplace Hindustani', also known as ''Colloquial Hindi''{{efn|<ref>{{Cite book |last=Agnihotri |first=Rama Kant |title=Hindi: an essential grammar |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-35671-8 |edition=1. publ |series=Essential grammars |location=London |pages=05 |language=en}}</ref> ([[Hindi]]: बोलचाल हिन्दी, [[Urdu]]: بول چال ہندی)}} or ''Simplified Urdu'',{{efn|<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Shackle |first1=C. |title=Hindi and Urdu since 1800: a common reader |last2=Snell |first2=Rupert |publisher=Heritage Publishers |year=1990 |isbn=978-81-7026-162-9 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=09 |language=en, hi, ur}}</ref> ([[Hindi]]: आसान उर्दू, [[Urdu]]: آسان اردو)}} has arisen to denote a colloquial register of the language that uses vocabulary common to both Hindi and Urdu while eschewing high-register and specialized Arabic or Sanskrit derived words.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=King |first=Robert D. |date=2001-01-10 |title=The poisonous potency of script: Hindi and Urdu |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl.2001.035 |journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language |issue=150 |doi=10.1515/ijsl.2001.035 |issn=0165-2516}}</ref> It has emerged in various South Asian cities where Hindustani is not the main language, in order to facilitate communication across language barriers. It is characterized by loanwords from local languages.<ref>Smith, Ian (2008). "Pidgins, Creoles, and Bazaar Hindi". In Kachru, Braj B; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar, S.N (eds.). ''Language in South Asia''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 254. {{ISBN|1139465503}}</ref>
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