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  2. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    The HindiUrdu controversy arose in 19th-century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken language ...

  3. Hindustani etymology - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, is the vernacular form of two standardized registers used as official languages in India and Pakistan, namely Hindi and Urdu.It comprises several closely related dialects in the northern, central and northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent but is mainly based on Khariboli of the Delhi region.

  4. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    When describing the state of Hindi-Urdu under the British Raj, Professor Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa stated that "Truly speaking, Hindi and Urdu, spoken by a great majority of people in north India, were the same language written in two scripts; Hindi was written in Devanagari script and therefore had a greater sprinkling of Sanskrit words ...

  5. Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    At the spoken level, Hindi and Urdu are considered registers of a single language, Hindustani or HindiUrdu, as they share a common grammar and core vocabulary, [18] [19] [93] [47] [45] they differ in literary and formal vocabulary; where literary Hindi draws heavily on Sanskrit and to a lesser extent Prakrit, literary Urdu draws heavily on ...

  6. Why does India’s Hindu right-wing hate the Urdu language so much?

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    Hindi and Urdu share almost all of their grammar and most of their day-to-day vocabulary. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

  7. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Technically, a direct one-to-one script mapping or rule-based lossless transliteration of Hindi-Urdu is not possible, majorly since Hindi is written in an abugida script and Urdu is written in an abjad script, and also because of other constraints like multiple similar characters from Perso-Arabic mapping onto a single character in Devanagari. [7]

  8. History of Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    [21] Likewise, when describing the state of Hindi-Urdu under British rule in colonial India, Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay stated that "Truly speaking, Hindi and Urdu, spoken by a great majority of people in north India, were the same language written in two scripts; Hindi was written in Devanagari script and therefore had a greater sprinkling ...

  9. Hindustani grammar - Wikipedia

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    The varying forms for the demonstrative nominative case pronouns constitute one of the small number of grammatical differences between Hindi and Urdu. In Hindi, yah "this" / ye "these" / vah "that" / ve "those" are considered the literary pronoun set while in Urdu, ye "this, these" / vo "that, those" is the only pronoun set.