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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Lingua franca pidgin of Dima Hasao district, Assam, India}}<br />
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|name=Haflong Hindi<br />
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|region=[[Dima Hasao]] district, [[Assam]]<br />
|speakers=none<br />
|familycolor=Pidgin<br />
|family=[[Hindi]]-based pidgin<br />
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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.<br />
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== Example phrases ==<br />
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><br />
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! Phrase<br />
! English glosses<br />
! Meaning<br />
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|hum tumko modot korne nahi sekega<br />
|I (implied) you (tumko) help (modot)<br />
|'I can't help you.'<br />
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|tumra kuttaa se humko kamraayaa<br />
|Your (tumra) dog (kuttaa) me (humko) bit (kamraayaa) <br />
|'Your dog bit me.'<br />
|-<br />
|tum kaha jaigah<br />
|Where (kaha) you (tum) go-Fut (jaigah)<br />
|'Where will you go?'<br />
|}<br />
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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.<br />
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[[Category:Dima Hasao district]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi languages]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
[[Category:Hindustani-based pidgins and creoles]]<br />
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