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  2. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    The two languages are often considered to be a single language (Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu) on a dialect continuum ranging from Persianised to Sanskritised vocabulary, [170] but now they are more and more different in words due to politics. [148] Old Urdu dictionaries also contain most of the Sanskrit words now present in Hindi. [186] [187]

  3. Hindi–Urdu transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Note that HindiUrdu transliteration schemes can be used for Punjabi as well, for Gurmukhi (Eastern Punjabi) to Shahmukhi (Western Punjabi) conversion, since Shahmukhi is a superset of the Urdu alphabet (with 2 extra consonants) and the Gurmukhi script can be easily converted to the Devanagari script.

  4. Hindustani language - Wikipedia

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    The standardised registers Hindi and Urdu are collectively known as HindiUrdu. [13] Hindustani is the lingua franca of the north and west of the Indian subcontinent, though it is understood fairly well in other regions also, especially in the urban areas. [14] This has led it to be characterised as a continuum that ranges between Hindi and ...

  5. Friendship Day - Wikipedia

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    Friendship Day (also known as the International Friendship Day or Friend's Day) is a day in several countries for celebrating friendship.It was initially promoted by the greeting card industry; evidence from social networking sites shows a revival of interest in Friendship Day that may have grown with the spread of the internet, particularly in India, Bangladesh, and Malaysia.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]

  8. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called HindiUrdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  9. Help talk:IPA/Hindi and Urdu/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    Hindi-Urdu speakers already know how pronounce थ. They don't need these example words. For you, there is allophony between aspiration and non-aspiration. Not so for Hindi-Urdu speakers: these produce totally distinct phonemes, aspiration is crucial. You are mapping an aspirated dental थ to an non-aspirated fricative ट. Ouch!