Hindustani

How To Use Hindustani In A Sentence

• If there is one artist who put Hindustani classical music on the world map it is sitar maestro Pundit Ravi Shankar.
• The competition is open to those aged 16 to 24 and has categories for light and classical Hindustani and Carnatic vocal, instrumental and devotional music.
• The son of the Chinese basketmaker, who dwelt almost next door, spoke neither English nor Hindustani, but showed an easy comprehension of her promise of backsheesh when he should return with an answer. The Path of a Star
• Suriname Hindustani (a variant of Bhoqpuri), Javanese The 1994 CIA World Factbook
• But then, instead of calling the etymon "Hindi-Urdu cakor" or "Hindustani cakor," they invented a completely spurious distinction between what look to the untutored eye like two different preforms, apparently because their transcription system for Hindi uses c for the unaspirated \ch\ (presumably using ch for the aspirated consonant), whereas the one for Urdu uses ch for the same phoneme (and presumably chh for the aspirated one). Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.
• Initially dressed in mini-skirts and tank tops, she gradually turned 'Hindustani' -- going from from blonde to black, changing from skirts to sarees. Daily News & Analysis
• The same may be said of Hindustani, which is the language of 100,000,000 inhabitants of British India; it shows wide dialectical variations and the people who speak it are not likely to spread. Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 1. English as a World Language
• Today, the folks sway to the tunes of Hindustani classical music.
• Trained in Hindustani classical music, the soft-spoken ' tabla ' artiste is quite a contrast to the musical instrument he plays!
• You speak Hindustani as well as Mahratti, do you not? At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War