which is the difference between pakistani and indian? Urdu and hindi, can it be communicated between whose speakers in oral?
2007-09-21 23:43:26 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
very little diffrence.
hindi = most of the words are sanskrit.
urdu while urdu got persian and arabic words.
but both can understand each other quite comfortably
2007-09-21 23:51:34 · answer #1 · answered by Eccentric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haha, the answers you're likely to get from many speakers will be outright lies because they are usually taught to hate each other and to think that the two are much more different than they are. The answer is a bit complex because it depends on the STYLE and the TOPIC. The more formal the style and the more technical the topic, the bigger the differences. The more everday the content and the more informal the style, the smaller they are. So in everyday conversation, there is often NO difference at all. But if you listen to the news or to a political speech or a university lecture, the differences in vocabulary will be huge because Hindi will use tons of Sanskrit words while Urdu will use Persian and Arabic ones. This process has been deliberately and artificially fostered by both sides--with rather little opposition, Mahatma Gandhi being the one well-known advocate of making the languages into one and not creating more of a distinction. When I studied Hindi/Urdu in the 1970's and 1980's I could not find any textbook that truly reflected the simple everyday spoken language, in which most of this vocabulary is never used at all. There are of course regional differences, dialects that is, and these are much greater than the Hindi/Urdu distinction. For a foreigner, I believe that the best thing would be to learn the spoken Hindi/Urdu of the city of Bombay, which is universally understood and which is as far as I can see the freeest of the artificial Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit elements, and where as a result Muslims who say they speak Urdu and Hindus who think they are speaking Hindi are clearly speaking the same language. I have not seen any textbook like this, unfortunately. In grammar there are almost no differences except that Urdu uses some Persian constructions, notably the one where you join a noun and its modifier with -e- and put the modifier AFTER the modified. In pronunciation, it is more common for Urdu speakers than Hindi ones to pronounce three Persian and Arabic consonants correctly instead of replacing them with native sounds, but this is just a tendency, not an absolute rule. These are z, gh, and kh.
2016-05-20 22:46:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's be a bit more careful, people!! First, many Indians, esp. Muslims of course but not only, know Urdu, millions in fact. Second, even spoken Urdu and Hindi may differ in choice of vocabulary. If you go online and look at people chatting in these two languages, using ENGLISH transcription (as seems to be the norm), you can instantly tell who is using Hindi and who is using Urdu. This is because Urdu uses a lot more Arabic-derived words and Hindi uses a lot more Sanskrit-derived ones. Third, when it comes to formal usage, such as the language of books, news media, academic, political, etc., discourse, the differences in vocabulary become very serious indeed, and make communication increasingly difficult. Having said that, they are really one language, but the differences should not be minimized.
2007-09-22 04:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
hey u forgot that india pakistan are once in sameas one country
the languages are not different for pakistani urdu&indian urdu
or pakistani hindi or indian hindi
thre are so many indian people in pakistan & their relatives are in india
so dont bother about it
but in case of languge thre is difference between hindi &urdu because they came from two different scipts sanskrit &persian
2007-09-22 00:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by sreenu 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
verbally yes. but the indians cannot read urdu and the pakistanis r unable to read hindi unless they study.
2007-09-22 00:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by mausamifrench 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
actually both are not very similar
you can only find some similarity in the way they are spoken (except for some words)
rest its the way or writing which is different
2007-09-21 23:55:09 · answer #6 · answered by mav_zipperopen 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes although they look same but their writing different
2007-09-21 23:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no difference in speaking , only in lippy
2007-09-22 02:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by Rana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋