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Joshua Pien is a Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages, specializing in Hindi and Urdu, at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been teaching at Penn since 2012 and holds a PhD (with distinction) from the same institution.
- PhD in South Asian Languages and Societies (University of Pennsylvania)
- MA in Hindi-Urdu Linguistics (University of Texas at Austin)
- BA in South Asian Studies (University of Pennsylvania)
Pien's research redefines Hindi-Urdu origin narratives using historical linguistic, dialectological, and sociolinguistic methodologies. His work focuses on early New Indo-Aryan and Persian sources, emphasizing the development of Hindi-Urdu as a spoken lingua franca in medieval north India.
His publications include Beginning Hindi: A Complete Course (2014) and Beginning Urdu: A Complete Course (2012), which synthesize his research interests in:
- Historical and sociolinguistic evolution of Hindi-Urdu
- Dialectology of the Hindi belt
- Islamicate cultural and linguistic influences in South Asia
- Delhi and Bahmani Sultanate historical contexts
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