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Urdu, I'm told by someone who speaks the language, is Hindi written in Arabic script.
by mtts 13y ago
Urdu, I'm told by someone who speaks the language, is Hindi written in Arabic script.
- Osmium 13y agoCould well be true! I'm not qualified to speak about that. Looking it up, seems like I mis-spoke when I said Urdu was Dravidian. But there are a lot of Indian languages that are (e.g. Kannada), so the overall point stands that the "averaging" comment is a bit misleading. Incidentally, your comment led me to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi–Urdu_controversy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi–Urdu_controversy which you may find interesting.