Diglossia
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In linguistics, diglossia is where two dialects or languages are used by a single language community. In addition to the community's everyday or vernacular language variety, a second, highly codified
The station board of Hapur Junction railway station in North India demonstrating digraphia of two formal registers, Hindi and Urdu, of a common vernacular, Hindustani, an example of triglossia
Hindustani language
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Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken across India's Hindi Belt and Pakistan as the lingua franca of the region. It is also spoken by the Deccani-speaking community in South India. Hindustani is
Diglossia
…speech (L) diverged), an unrelated language, or a distinct yet closely related present-day dialect. For example, northern India and Pakistan, where Hindustani (L) is used alongside the standard registers of Hindi (H) and Urdu (H); the German-speaking countries, where Standard German (H) is used alongside…
Hindustani, in its standardised registers, is one of the official languages of both India (Hindi) and Pakistan (Urdu).
A grammar of the Hindustani language, published 1843