Hindiphone

1. not comparableuncommonHindi-speaking.

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   Of course the average publisher finds it far more practical and profitable to print masses of kunjis (guides) than to publish quality books. The combination of the publishers’ concern with quick returns and the indifference of scholars has meant that, more than forty years after Hindi was designated the rashtrabhasha, Hindiphone students have very few books to read, and most of them of appalling quality.

   1990 March 31, Narayani Gupta, “History for the Subalterns”, in Economic and Political Weekly, volume XXV, Bombay: Sameeksha Trust, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 663, column 1

   But before Partition and up to the ’60s, Urdu was not the exclusive language of the Muslims of India but was used by a sizeable Hindiphone population, as well as speakers of Gujarati, Punjabi and Bengali, thus including other religions and Hindus, Sikhs and even Parsis (whose theatre is often in Urdu).

   2000, Yves Thoraval, “The Cultural Symbiosis Wrought by ‘Hindustani’”, in The Cinemas of India, Delhi: Macmillan India, published 2007, →ISBN, page 70

   The conversation between the characters who are soon going to be fast friends raises questions about the readership and the new Anglophone novel. It does not dismiss any language, or invoke a colonizer–colonized debate or a Bhabhian “mimicry,” but satirizes the subject of Bhagat’s first novel in English, and subtly establishes the world of UP 65 as “authentic,” or “UP” (Uttar Pradesh) to take the title of the novel, for English-types and non-English-types in a Hindiphone world that is in conversation with the new Anglophone writings of India. […] Further, the textual worlds of both Bhagat and Sachan exist without any ties to western institutional and academic affiliations, revealing a multilingual readership of India in a simultaneous conversation with the Anglophone and the Hindiphone worlds.

   2020 June 26, Bhavya Tiwari, “The Multilingual Anglophone: World Literature and Post-Millennial Literature in Postcolonial India”, in interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, volume 23 (2021), number 4, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 629–631

plural Hindiphones

1. uncommonOne who speaks Hindi.

   > Shees. Buitelanders*. Mutter, mutter, mutter[2]. *Second time in this run-through for the intrusive "b". Did the Afrikaanophones get it the same place the Hindiphones got the one in "b-loke"?

   2006 April 29, CDB, “"Empire-State Building"?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2026

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   In the field of scientific terminology principles have been defined by the “Board of Scientific and Technical Terminology” (1950). (1) Scientific and technical international terms should be retained in English when they denote specific objects and are used in at least three main European languages. They will be transcribed with the phonetical changes required by the pronunciation of English words by Hindiphones.

   1996, Nicholas Balbir, “The Modernization of Hindi”, in Shivendra K[ishore] Verma, Dilip Singh, editors, Perspectives on Language in Society (Papers in Memory of Prof. Srivastava), volume I, Delhi: Kalinga Publications, →ISBN, page 46

   Various dialects of Hindi are found in some northern states, such as Punjabi, Gujurati, Rajasthani, Brij, etc. Of these, the only dialect *I* (as a Hindiphone :)) can understand is Punjabi (and I'm not Punjabi, my roots come from the Brij-speaking region of northern India).

   1996 July 11, Neil, “The party for a bi-lingual Quebec”, in soc.culture.quebec (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2026

   I have friends of Indian origin who decided to try and learn Hindi when they were around 18 years old, but no matter how well they speak it, for the rest of their lives they are stuck being 2nd-language Hindiphones, and will forever speak it with a horrible American accent.

   1996 November 16, Neil, “Economic policy”, in qc.politique (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jun 2026