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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents: Foreword. Part I: Scheduled Languages. 1. Hindi. 2. Nepali. 3. Urdu. 4. Sindhi. Part II: Non-Scheduled Languages. 5. Awadhi. 6. Bagheli. 7. Baiswari Awadhi. 8. Bhojpuri. 9. Brajbhasha. 10. Bundeli. 11. Illahabadi. 12. Kannauji. 13. Kauravi. 14. Tharu. Part III: Other Languages. 15. Chamarmangata. 16. The Language of Mahavats. 17. The Language of Nats and Kanjars. 18. The World of Secret Tongues: The Languages of Nishads and Pandas. Appendix. Index. Commonly referred to as the Hindi heartland , Uttar Pradesh is the most populous and the fourth largest state of India. Its linguistic tapestry is unique as it is home to not just Hindi and a host of other Scheduled and Non-Scheduled languages, but also to some secret tongues, devised purely to communicate within smaller communities by their members. This volume, People s Linguistic Survey of India, The Languages of Uttar Pradesh (volume twenty-nine, part two) focusses on the majority as well as minority languages of the state: linguistic characteristics, grammatical features, folklore and vocabulary of various languages are discussed to give readers as broad a sense of the languages as possible. …