They’re different languages yes, but for spoken they’re almost interchangeable. Anyone who speaks Urdu will understand spoken Hindi, but each language has specific words unique to their vocabulary. Their vastly different in written too, Hindi is written in sanskrit script and Urdu is written in Arabic script. I speak Urdu but can freely communicate with Hindi speakers and vice versa but cannot read Hindi
So the same language, but different writing systems. Like if English were written in binary, it’d still be English, but nobody would be able to read it like they could read English text.
They say that the common definition of “a language” is by borders and military, rather than by any linguistic criteria! Lol
They’re different languages yes, but for spoken they’re almost interchangeable. Anyone who speaks Urdu will understand spoken Hindi, but each language has specific words unique to their vocabulary. Their vastly different in written too, Hindi is written in sanskrit script and Urdu is written in Arabic script. I speak Urdu but can freely communicate with Hindi speakers and vice versa but cannot read Hindi
I honestly never knew this. Thanks for sharing!
Nice, thank you.
Sound very similar to Serbo-Croatian - a language spectrum divided by geopolitics.
So the same language, but different writing systems. Like if English were written in binary, it’d still be English, but nobody would be able to read it like they could read English text.
They say that the common definition of “a language” is by borders and military, rather than by any linguistic criteria! Lol
See also: “the Chinese language”