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Hyderabadi Urdu | |
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حیدرآبادی اردو | |
Native to | Telangana, Marathwada region of Maharashtra and Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka |
Region | Deccan |
Ethnicity | Deccanis (Hyderabadi Muslims) |
Perso-Arabic (Urdu alphabet) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | dakh1244 |
Hyderabadi (Urdu: حیدرآبادی اردو) is a variety of Dakhini Urdu, spoken in areas of the former Hyderabad State, corresponding to the Indian state of Telangana, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka.
It is natively spoken by the Hyderabadi Muslims and their diaspora.[1][2] It contains loan words from Indian languages like Marathi, Telugu, Kannada and foreign languages like Arabic, Turkic and Persian.[3] Hyderabadi is considered to be a northern variety of Dakhini.[4]