Khari Boli is a historical form of Hindustani used as a lingua franca in northern India and later associated with standard Punjabi/ Hindi phonology; in some contexts it functions as a verb meaning to speak in this register, though commonly the term is used as an ethnolinguistic and stylistic label. It denotes a prestige, formalized speech style rooted in early modern courtly and urban speech. It embodies a blend of Hindustani phonology and social branding rather than a single syntactic verb in everyday use.
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