Dakhani

Deccani (دکنیdakanī) also known as Deccani Urdu, Deccani Hindi, or Deccani Hindustani is an Indo-Aryanlanguage variety based on a form of Hindustani spoken in the Deccan region of south-central India and is the native language of the Deccani people. The historical form of Deccani sparked the development of Urdu literature during the late-Mughal period. Deccani arose as a lingua franca under the Delhi Sultanate and Bahmani Sultanates, as trade and migration from the north introduced Hindustani to the Deccan. It later developed a literary tradition under the patronage of the Deccan Sultanates. Deccani itself came to influence standard Urdu and later modern standard Hindi. Deccani has an Indo-Aryan core vocabulary, though it incorporated loanwords from Persian, which was the official language of the Deccan Sultanates. Additionally, Deccani differs from northern Hindustani sociolects due to archaisms retained from the medieval era, as well as a convergence with and loanwords from the Deccan's regional languages like Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil spoken in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu. Deccani has been increasingly influenced by