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Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Indians do understand "urdu", no?
by afghanPower 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but most Indians do understand "urdu", no?
- axiom92 9y agoPeople with an understanding of Hindi should be able to understand everyday Urdu.
- deanstag 9y agoI think you might be talking about Hindi. That is the most common language.
- jfk13 9y agoThat may be the case for many people across the "Hindi belt" of northern India. (Hindi and Urdu, at an everyday level, being fairly close to a case of "same spoken language, different scripts".) In the Dravidian-speaking south....not so much.
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- sumedh 9y agoYes because most Indians can speak Hindi(Urdu is similar to Hindi). Hindi is the second or third language for many non native Hindi speakers.
- wizardofmysore 9y agoAround 100+ million of 1.2 billion don't speak Hindi.
- ucntseeme 9y agoThat's still very less than the majority.
- Manishearth 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of... No, by the 2001 census it's about 50% of Indians who do not speak Hindi. I don't see a reason for this fraction to have changed significantly.
- wizardofmysore 9y agoNo. People in the northern region would since it is similar to Hindi. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala have their own language respectively which is different from Hindi and they wouldn't. I am not certain about entire Andra and Telengana. People in Hyderabad speak Urdu.