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{{Short description|Lingua franca pidgin of Dima Hasao district, Assam, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
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|region=[[Dima Hasao]] district, [[Assam]]
|speakers=none
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|family=[[Hindi]]-based pidgin
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'''Haflong Hindi''' ({{lang-hi|हफ़लौंग हिन्दी}}) is the [[lingua franca]] of [[Dima Hasao district]] of [[Assam]] state of [[India]].<ref name="Ved Prakash">Col Ved Prakash, "Encyclopaedia of North-east India, Vol# 2", Atlantic Publishers Distributors;Pg 575, {{ISBN|978-81-269-0704-5}}</ref> It is a [[pidgin]] that stemmed from [[Hindi]] and includes vocabulary from several other languages, such as [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Dimasa language|Dimasa]] and [[Zeme language|Zeme]] Naga. It is named after [[Haflong]], which is the headquarters of Dima Hasao district.

== Example phrases ==
The dialect is largely intelligible to Hindi speakers, and features simplified grammar with loanword infusions.<ref name="Indexp">{{cite web|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/In-this-Assam-district,-Hindi-unites-11-tribes/215516/|title=In this Assam district, Hindi unites 11 tribes|access-date=2008-09-17|publisher=Indian Express, September 10, 2007}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Phrase
! English glosses
! Meaning
|-
|hum tumko modot korne nahi sekega
|I (implied) you (tumko) help (modot)
|'I can't help you.'
|-
|tumra kuttaa se humko kamraayaa
|Your (tumra) dog (kuttaa) me (humko) bit (kamraayaa) 
|'Your dog bit me.'
|-
|tum kaha jaigah
|Where (kaha) you (tum) go-Fut (jaigah)
|'Where will you go?'
|}

In contrast to printed forms of Hindi, the Haflong variety lacks person and number agreement in the verb and [[ergative case|ergative]] marking of the subject when transitive clauses are in a preterite or perfect tense.

== References ==
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{{Languages of Northeast India}}
{{Indo-Aryan languages}}
{{Hindi topics}}
[[Category:Dima Hasao district]]
[[Category:Hindi languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]
[[Category:Hindustani-based pidgins and creoles]]


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