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2007-05-10 07:01:10 · 7 answers · asked by fijiman 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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What is the difference between Hindi and Urdu?
At the level of the colloquial language that is spoken spontaneously or is heard in Bollywood movies, Hindi and Urdu are virtually the identical language. Thus,

gãv meñ voh lajavab hai.
[There is no one like him in the village.]

They are, however, written in two different scripts, Urdu in the Perso-Arabic script and Hindi in the Devanagari script of Sanskrit.

In the literary or "chaste" dialect, Urdu uses many more Persian & Arabic words and grammatical forms than Hindi, whose literary dialect is more Sanskritised. But it is false to suppose Hindi lacks Persian & Arabic loanwords and Urdu lacks etymologically Sanskrit words. Both languages share a common lexicon that includes native (Indian), Arabic, Persian, and English loanwords.

When expressing the elevated thoughts of science, philosophy, art and politics, the Muslims of India naturally always drew from the wealth of Arabic and Persian literary words, whereas the Hindus turned toward Sanskrit. This accounts for the differences between Hindi and Urdu (in vocabulary but almost never in grammar), but these are differences which exist primarily at the elite level and in abstract vocabulary. For example:

Pakistani siyasat meñ voh lajavab hai. (Urdu)

Pakistani rajniti meñ voh lajavab hai. (Hindi)

[There is no one like him in Pakistani politics.]

It's a good rule of thumb that whenever Urdu and Hindi words differ, it is becaue the one is using an Arabic or Persian word while the other a Sanskrit loanword.

Because the political vocabulary tends to be different between the languages, Pakistanis and Indians ordinarily don't understand each other's country's official radio and television broadcasts -- depite the fact that they understand each other's movies perfectly well!

2007-05-10 07:05:28 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2 0

The two languages are basically the same and mutually intelligible. However, the Persian / Arabic influence is a little stronger on Urdu while Hindi, unlike Urdu, has tried to coin some of its new words from Sanskrit.

They also have different writing systems with Urdu using the Arabic / Persian Script and Hindi using the older Sanskrit Devanagari script.

2007-05-10 08:21:09 · answer #2 · answered by Brennus 6 · 0 0

Haha, the solutions you're probably to get from many audio device would be outright lies via fact they are often taught to hate one yet another and to think of that the two are lots extra diverse than they are. the respond is somewhat complicated via fact it relies upon on the kind and the subject rely. The extra formal the kind and the extra technical the subject rely, the bigger the diversities. The extra everday the content cloth and the extra casual the kind, the smaller they are. So in time-honored communication, there is often NO distinction in any respect. yet once you hear to the information or to a political speech or a college lecture, the diversities in vocabulary would be huge via fact Hindi will use a great number of Sanskrit phrases mutually as Urdu will use Persian and Arabic ones. This technique has been intentionally and artificially fostered by ability of the two sides--with extremely little opposition, Mahatma Gandhi being the only nicely-time-honored advise of coming up the languages into one and not coming up extra of a distinction. as quickly as I studied Hindi/Urdu in the 1970's and 1980's i could not locate any textbook that quite meditated the common time-honored spoken language, wherein maximum of this vocabulary is in no way used in any respect. there are of direction nearby differences, dialects that's, and those are lots extra advantageous than the Hindi/Urdu distinction. For a foreigner, i've got self assurance that the excellent element may be to study the spoken Hindi/Urdu of the city of Bombay, that's universally understood and that's so some distance as i will see the freeest of the synthetic Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit components, and the place subsequently Muslims who say they communicate Urdu and Hindus who think of they are talking Hindi are patently talking the comparable language. I certainly have not seen any textbook like this, regrettably. In grammar there are very nearly no differences different than that Urdu makes use of a few Persian structures, enormously the only the place you connect a noun and its modifier with -e- and placed the modifier AFTER the changed. In pronunciation, that's extra trouble-free for Urdu audio device than Hindi ones to pronounce 3 Persian and Arabic consonants properly extremely of adjusting them with nearby sounds, yet it is in basic terms a bent, not an absolute rule. those are z, gh, and kh.

2016-10-15 07:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The difference is primarily the religion of their speakers and the form of script. As a general rule, Muslims speak Urdu, and Hindus speak Hindi.

2007-05-10 07:14:26 · answer #4 · answered by Fred 7 · 0 2

Urdu ek perso arbic script hai jabki hindi devnagri script hai. Urdu mein arbic language ka use kiya jata jabki hindi mein sanskrit ka use kiya jata hai

2007-05-11 01:28:52 · answer #5 · answered by chandu s 1 · 0 0

The alphabet, and a few words that people who speak Urdu use because of Islamic tradition. They are essentially the same language.

2007-05-10 08:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Waiting and Wishing 6 · 0 0

there's not much difference except that they have different dilects

2007-05-10 07:09:35 · answer #7 · answered by zestful12 4 · 0 0

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