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It's a distant relative: Urdu is Indo-Aryan, which is the language family Sanskrit belonged to, and Indo-Aryan is in the Indo-European language family, to which
by lgessler 8y ago
It's a distant relative: Urdu is Indo-Aryan, which is the language family Sanskrit belonged to, and Indo-Aryan is in the Indo-European language family, to which English and Romance languages also belong.
GP's point is still a good one though: while Urdu and English have diverged quite a bit despite being of the same stock, they probably still share a lot more typologically than, say, English and Mandarin or Warlpiri.