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Dakkhini (Hindi: दक्खिनी dakkʰinī), also known as Deccani (Urdu: دکنی), is a dialect of the Urdu language spoken in the Deccan region of southern India, centered on the city of Hyderabad, in the state of Andhra Pradesh. There is an extensive literature in this dialect, but it has fallen out of use in recent times. Image File history File links Please see the file description page for further information. ... Hyderabadi Urdu is a dialect of Urdu spoken in Hyderabad, India. ... Hindi (हिन्दी or हिंदी in Devanagari; pronunciation: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is the official language of the Union government of India [1][2]. It is part of a dialect continuum of the Indic family, bounded on the northwest and west by Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu, and... The phrase Zaban-e Urdu-e Mualla written in Urdu Urdu () is an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan family that developed under Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, and Sanskrit influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire (1200-1800). ... The Deccan Plateau is a vast plateau in India, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. ... Hyderabad or Haydarābād (Telugu: హైదరాబాదు Urdu: حیدر آباد ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ... Andhra Pradesh  : (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్, Urdu: آندھرا پردیش, IPA: ), is a state in South India. ...

Dakhani, also known as Dakkhani, Dakhni or Deccani (cognate of Sanskrit dakshin, "south") is spoken in the Deccan plateau area of India. Just as Urdu developed in Delhi, Dakhni developed in South India due to the mixing of various Indian based languages and Persian based languages. The term Dakhani is perhaps an umbrella for a group of dialects spoken by certain communities of Hindus & Muslims in the Deccan region. Thus, Dakhani dialects are an amalgam of Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Telugu, Arabic, Persian and Turkish. The Sanskrit language ( , ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, and one of the 22 official languages of India. ...

Deccani or Dakhini is the lingua franca of the Muslims of South India, chiefly living in Hyderabad and further south. Though it is considered as a dialect of Urdu, it constitutes the traits of a different language in its own sense. Deccani is widely spoken across the South Indian peninsula with subtle changes in the dialect as you go down south away from Hyderabad. This tongue is used extensively in the spoken form; when it comes to writing and literary work, on the other hand, the original Urdu language is made use of.

Classification

Dakhni is part of the Indo-Aryan grouping of the Indo-European languages. The Indo-Aryan languages form a subgroup of the Indo-Iranian languages, thus belonging to the Indo-European family of languages. ... The Indo-European languages comprise a family of several hundred languages and dialects [1], including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. ...

Geographic distribution

Most speakers of Dakhni live in the Indian region known as the Deccan. They inhabit the regions comprising the erstwhile Muslim kingdoms in South India viz. portions of the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. The Deccan Plateau is a vast plateau in India, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. ... Karnātakā   (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ) (IPA: ) is one of the four southern states of India. ... Maharashtra (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र mahārāṣṭra, literally: Great Nation; IPA: )( ) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... Andhra Pradesh  : (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్, Urdu: آندھرا پردیش, IPA: ), is a state in South India. ...

Dialects

Dialects of Dakhani include Savji bhasha i.e. the language of the Savji community in the Hubli-Dharwad-Gadag-Bijapur-Belgaum region. The Savji or Somvanshya Sahasrarjun Kshatriya or SSK Samaj are a Kshatriya community concentrated in the districts bordering Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. ...

See also

• Hyderabadi Urdu