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Language that’s popular remains in Chinese dynasty and India (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hindustani

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'language' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'remains in chinese dynasty and india' is the wordplay.
'remains' becomes 'dust' (dust can mean a person's remains).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'chinese dynasty' becomes 'hina' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and').
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'dust' going within 'hina' is 'hindusta'.
'hindusta'+'n'+'i'='HINDUSTANI'

'that's popular' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for hindustani that I've seen before include "tongue" , "Converting device" , "Language" , "Dialect of Hindi" , "Indians" .)

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