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EASTERN See also:HINDI , one of the " intermediate" Indo-See also:Aryan See also:languages (see See also:HINDOSTANI) . It is spoken in Oudh, Baghelkhand and See also:Chhattisgarh by over 22,000,000 See also:people . It is derived from the Apabhrarilsa See also:form of Ardhamagadhi See also:Prakrit (see PRAKRIT), and possesses a large and important literature . Its most famous writer was Tulsi See also:Dais, the poet and reformer, who 'died See also:early in the 17th See also:century, and since his See also:time it has been the See also:North-See also:Indian See also:language employed for epic See also:poetry . |
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