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Hindustani grammar, an Uncommon card
Hindustani, the lingua franca of northern India and Pakistan, has two standardised registers: Hindi and Urdu.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 62
- Power
- 151
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 23,000
Power 151 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Hindustani grammar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hindustani grammar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
On this grammar page, Hindustani is written in the ______ outlined in Masica.
Answer
transcription. On this grammar page, Hindustani is written in the transcription outlined in Masica. From the Hindustani grammar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Hindustani grammar. Hindustani grammar 89 · Elena Vesnina 84 · Charlie Brown Jr. 80 · Central Kurdish 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Grammatical differences between the two standards are minor but each uses its own script: Hindi uses Devanagari while Urdu uses an extended form of the Perso-Arabic script, typically in the Nastaʿlīq style.
- On this grammar page, Hindustani is written in the transcription outlined in Masica.
- Being "primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, [and] based in turn upon Sanskrit", these are its salient features: subscript dots for retroflex consonants, macrons for etymologically contrastive long vowels, h for aspirated plosives, and tildes for nasalised vowels.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hindustani grammar article was read about 23,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 62: each hit it takes is cut by 25 %.
How to get Hindustani grammar
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hindustani grammar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : John Dowson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
