| Hindostani - LoveToKnow 1911 (14673 words) |
 | The language of this tract is called "Western Hindi"; to its west we have Panjabi (of the Central Punjab), and to the east, reaching as far as Benares, Eastern Hindi, both Intermediate languages. |
| The expanding Midland language was stopped by the desert from reaching Sindhi, but to the south-west it found an unobstructed way into Gujarat, where, under the form of Gujarati, 1 "Hindostan" is a Persian word, and in modern Persian is pronounced "Hindustan." It means the country of the Hindus. |
| The other two languages define the fact that the subject is in the instrumental (or agent) case by the addition of the postposition ne, andc., an old form employed elsewhere to define the dative. |
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