Throughout the wide extent of Hindustan, many are the dialects that are spoken, and the diversity of those that do not exclude a common inter­intelligibility are innumerable. Those forms of speech that are not under­stood one of another, are the dialects of Delhi, Bengal, Multán, Máṛwáṛ, Gujarát, Telingánah,* Maṛhaṭṭa, Karnátik, Sind, Afghán of Shál (between Sind, Kábul, and Ḳandahár), Beluchistán, and Kashmír.