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Article #1988Need help with Urdu, too
From: John O'Neil
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:33
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:33
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In article <1992Dec19.172133.18284@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> tariqh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Tariq Hamid) writes: This difference is due to the nationalistic tendencies of the rulers of India and Pakistan. After independence, from the British in 1947, the Indians decided to write the language known as "Hindustani" in the Devanagri script, the ancient script in which Sanskrit is written. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Hindi had been a written language -- written in Devanagari -- since the 12th century. Hindi and Urdu are closely related, I know, the first being influenced by Sanskrit and the latter by Farsi and Arabic. Hindustani is supposed to be a language which is neutral between them, but its linguistic status (rather than its political status) is unclear to me. -- John O'Neil "Occasionally I believed I had thoughts of my own -- who does not now and then become the victim of such delusions?" -- Paul Feyerabend
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